Manifest - Andrew Bird

I’m coming to the edge of the widest canyon

My companion’s dear

I’m starting to question my manifest destiny

My claim to this frontier

I’m coming to the brink of a great disaster

End just has to be near

The earth spins faster, whistles right past you

Whispers death in your ear

Don’t pretend you can’t hear

Don’t pretend you can’t

I can hear your tendrils still digging

For everything that’s walked this earth once living

Then to be exhumed and burned to vapor

Can you save her?

Now she’s in the air

Radical and free

Neither here nor there

She’s obliged to no one

She’s obliged to no one

Yeah, yeah

I’m coming to the edge of a rising ocean

Such commotion and fear

Keeping all our eyes on what’s on the horizon

And all that we hold dear

I’m coming to the brink of a great disaster

End just has to be near

The earth spins faster, whistles right past you

Whispers death in your ear

Don’t pretend you can’t hear

Don’t pretend you can’t

I can hear your tendrils still digging

For everything that’s walked this earth once living

Then to be exhumed and burned to vapor

Can you save her?

She’s in the air

Radical and free

Not a goddamn care

She’s obliged to no one

She’s obliged to no one

Oh, no

Don’t pretend you can’t hear

Don’t pretend you can’t hear