Another New World-Josh Ritter

[ti:Another New World] [ar:Josh Ritter] [al:So Runs the World Away] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Another New World - Josh Ritter [00:35.01]The leading light of the age all wondered amongst [00:38.53]Themselves what I would do next [00:41.03] [00:42.74]After all that I'd found in my travels around [00:46.07]The world was there anything else left [00:49.26] [00:50.43]Gentlemen I said [00:51.72]I've studied the maps [00:53.82]And if what I'm thinking is right [00:55.74] [00:57.60]There's another new world at the top of the world [01:00.64]For whoever can break through the ice [01:02.87]I looked round the room [01:04.13] [01:07.14]In that way I once had [01:08.48]And I saw that they wanted belief [01:10.76] [01:12.48]So I said [01:13.13]All I've got are my guts and my God [01:15.48]Then I pausedand [01:16.51] [01:17.75]The Annabelle lee [01:19.40] [01:20.63]Oh the Annabelle lee I saw their eyes shine [01:24.60]The most beautiful ship in the sea [01:26.69] [01:28.50]My Nina my Pinta my Santa Maria [01:31.81]My beautiful Annabelle lee [01:34.00] [01:52.13]That spring we set sail as the crowd waved from shore [01:56.24]On board crew waved their hats [01:58.89] [02:00.46]But I never had family just the Annabelle lee [02:03.69]So I didn't have 'cause to look back [02:06.63] [02:08.16]I just set the course north [02:09.67] [02:10.33]And I studied the charts [02:12.89]And toward dark I drifted toward sleep [02:15.46] [02:17.49]And I dreamed of the fine deep harbor I'd find [02:20.97]Past the ice for my Annabelle lee [02:23.74]After that it got colder [02:25.48] [02:28.93]World got quiet [02:30.26]It was never quite day or quite night [02:33.15] [02:35.01]And the sea turned the color of sky turned the color [02:38.45]Sea turned the color of ice [02:40.91] [02:42.60]'Til at last all around us was fastness [02:45.41]One vast glassy desert arsenic white [02:49.01] [02:50.63]And the waves that once lifted us [02:52.76]Sifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides [02:56.76]The crew gathered closer [02:58.42] [03:01.45]First for the comfort [03:03.23]But each morning would bring a new set [03:05.74] [03:07.26]Tracks in the snow leading over the edge [03:10.74]Of the world 'til I was the only one left [03:13.71] [03:15.32]And after that it gets cloudy [03:16.72] [03:17.67]It feels like I lay there [03:19.66]For days maybe for months [03:22.36] [03:23.98]But Annabelle held me the two of us happy [03:27.24]Just to think back on all we had done [03:30.00] [04:06.30]We talked of the other worlds we'd discover [04:11.04]As she gave up her body to me [04:13.04] [04:15.35]And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber [04:17.83]I told her of all that we still had to see [04:21.28] [04:23.59]As the frost turned her moorings to ninetail [04:27.09]The wind lashed her sides in the cold [04:29.96] [04:31.63]I burned her to keep me alive every night [04:35.10]In the lover's embrace of her hold [04:37.66]And I won't call it rescue [04:39.83] [04:42.93]Brought me back here to [04:45.01]The old world to drink and decline [04:47.60] [04:49.40]Pretend that the search for another new world [04:52.37]Was well worth the burning of mine [04:55.40] [04:57.87]Sometimes at night [04:59.47] [05:00.17]In my dreams comes the singing [05:02.84]Of some known tropical bird [05:05.66] [05:07.10]And I smile in my sleep [05:09.25]Thinking Annabelle lee [05:10.87]Has finally made it to another new world [05:13.32] [05:15.70]Has sometimes at night [05:17.67] [05:18.40]In my dreams comes the singing [05:21.21]Of some known tropical bird [05:24.11] [05:25.50]And I smile in my sleep [05:26.98] [05:27.70]Thinking Annabelle lee [05:29.36]Has finally made it to another new world