Another New World Lyrics - So Runs The World Away - Josh Ritter

The leading light of the age all wondered amongst 

Themselves what I would do next 

After all that I'd found in my travels around 

The world was there anything else left? 

"Gentlemen", I said, "I've studied the maps" 

"And if what I'm thinking is right" 

"There's another new world at the top of the world" 

"For whoever can break through the ice" 

I looked round the room in that way I once had 

And I saw that they wanted belief 

So I said "All I've got are my guts and my God" 

Then I paused,"and the Annabelle Lee" 

Oh the Annabelle Lee, I saw their eyes shine 

The most beautiful ship in the sea 

My Nina, My Pinta, My Santa Maria 

My beautiful Annabelle Lee 

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That spring we set sail as the crowd waved from shore 

And on board the crew waved their hats 

But I never had family just the Annabelle Lee 

So I didn't have cause to look back 

I just set the course north and I studied the charts 

And toward dark I drifted toward sleep 

And I dreamed of the fine deep harbor I'd find 

Past the ice for my Annabelle Lee 

After that it got colder the world got quiet 

It was never quite day or quite night 

And the sea turned the color of sky turned the color 

Of sea turned the color of ice 

'Til at last all around us was fastness 

One vast glassy desert of arsenic white 

And the waves that once lifted us 

Sifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides 

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The crew gathered closer at first for the comfort 

But each morning would bring a new set 

Of the tracks in the snow leading over the edge 

Of the world 'til I was the only one left 

After that it gets cloudy but it feels like I lay there 

For days maybe for months 

But Annabelle held me the two of us happy 

Just to think back on all we had done 

We talked of the other worlds we'd discover 

As she gave up her body to me 

And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber 

I told her of all that we still had to see 

As the frost turned her moorings to nine-tail 

And the wind lashed her sides in the cold 

I burned her to keep me alive every night 

In the lover's embrace of her hold 

I won't call it rescue what brought me here back to 

The old world to drink and decline 

And to pretend that the search for another new world 

Was well-worth the burning of mine 

But sometimes at night in my dreams comes the singing 

Of some known tropical bird 

And I smile in my sleep thinking Annabelle Lee 

Has finally made it to another new world