Swing Lo Magellan

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

If there is ever the impregnable question Of why what did or didn't pass It would help to seek Comfort in destiny But I really don't We don't see eye to eye But I need you And you're always on my mind Whether there is or isn't any position You care i

I ran across cyanide plains Mind like a prison cell But feet untethered and sane I wandered out hopeless and sad No thought of where I'd go Or how I'd ever get back There is an answer I haven't found it But I will keep dancing till I do I boogied dow

If you had looked, you might have just seen them Stretched in the background You'd see the oceans swell And the mountains shook You'd see a million colors If you really looked Now quick the night draws near Her curtain spreads quicker The safety's of

There was a single one, then there were ten With time made a hundred and a hundred million You came and spoke to me; I saw your face Your words were like raindrops from a storm in a vase Each generation different He was made to love her She was made

If a search has been long and futile and brutal And if you squint trying to recollect the bosom of your grown love You reach out and into the absence and gasping The vastness grasps you like an alien embrace Your face to its face No end and neither b