Swing Lo Magellan

Album: Swing Lo Magellan (2012)
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  • Last night all my attention
    Squinting westward at the sunset
    With a map and a compass
    When a man reached up said something

    There
    Against the sky
    A point of light
    Too
    Invisible
    To give itself
    To the naked eye

    On the shore people yellin'
    In their eyes a great reflection
    In the grid oh where their position
    Unconcerned with intuition

    There
    Could never be
    No sympathy
    From
    That wilderness
    So let it be
    Arrested

    Swing low oh Magellan
    Nine by six or eight by seven
    Post a sentinel at the border
    Of what what you attend
    What you ignore

    I saw my friend
    In a pool of light
    Oh drown
    In doubt and shame
    But I knew that I
    Had lost my sight Writer/s: David Donnell Longstreth
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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