The Boat Of Millions Of Years - Van Der Graaf Generator

Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto

Poisoned by Set

She called out to the High God Ra

To kill this evil, that her child may live yet

Casting aside her present fears

She called out on the Boat of Millions of years…

Ra came and saw

And stopped the sun until he had cured

The life of the innocent

Horus the Good lived in the North

In lands of fertility and beauty

But Set stayed in the hard desert

To him belonged all drought and perversity

While he sheds his tears

Beneath the Boat of Millions of years

He fights to kill the hawk

Bearing with him evil and darkness

But Horus lives with the sun

Forever the battle rages

Evil tries to kill the innocent baby

And only Osiris, the Lord of the Dead

Can eventually save it

So we must cast aside our future fears

And call out on the Boat of Millions of years

The God of Love is on our side

And with him we shall not die…

There’s life in the Sun!

There’s life in the Sun!

Only in violence is the cause lost:

In peace, grey Set can’t kill our baby of love