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Well the title says it all. Maybe you've felt this way in your life in this day and age, with so many terrible things going on in the world everyday, bombarded as we are with catastrophic news, and not much improvement in sight. Sometimes I do feel it is all just a matter of time before civilisation collapses and before some major tragedy touches my life. I've been feeling that since I was 13 and old enough to see what was going on in the world.
But maybe you are wondering what the biblical scenery is doing in a pagan song. Well remember that all the myths in the Bible can be traced to Pagan sources, that the Hebrews themselves were pagans, before the Egyptian Moses (remember Thutmoses, Dedumose etc.) exhorted them to follow monotheism, likely created by Akhenaten, whom we are certain wrote the "Lord's Prayer" for himself as the one god, the sun god, in order to stop the weakening of Egypt through the division of powers among so many priesthoods. (It was the division of Egypt into many pagan priesthoods that allowed the pagan Jewish Hyksos to invade Egypt in the first place.) So actually it is quite possible that Christians and Jews are actually worshipping an Egyptian pharaoh when they worship the old testament god.
"Little boats of love" has a more complex meaning, dealing with the symbolism of a boat as a saviour--so again an almost Christian or Jesus like image.(You can learn about how Jesus as a pagan god by reading The Jesus Mysteries, or the Pagan Christ, or Jesus as a Roman Flavian creation used to mentally disarm the violent Jewish messianic sects in Ceasar's Messiah) But this saviour is love, or Love. Cupid. Under the Romans, the powerful Eros was broken up into miniature fat cupids, many of them.
A possibly Roman comprehension of love. Why I like this is that rather than projecting Love as a powerful force beyond us, it makes love something we all have. We are all "saviours," that is we can all save and help each other through love. So the meaning in the song here is that the little boat of love is the love in each of us. We will not be saved by a big boat, a messianic saviour, a Noah's ark, but by the love in our own breasts and how we respect the love in others.
