Swing Lo Magellan

[Verse 1]

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 ball of light

Too invisible to give itself to the naked eye

[Verse 2]

On the shore, people yelling

In their eyes, a great reflection

In the grid where they're positioned

Unconcerned with intuition

There could never be no sympathy

From that wilderness, so let it be arrested

[Verse 3]

Swing low, oh Magellan

9 by 6 or 8 by 7

Post a sentinel at the border

Of what you attempt, what you ignore

I saw my frame in a pool of light

All drowned in doubt and shame

And I knew that I had lost my sight