Swing Lo Magellan

Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors Lyrics

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