Another New World

Another New World - Punch Brothers

The leading lights of the age all wondered

Amongst themselves what I would do next

After all that I found in

My travels around the world

Was there anything left

Gentlemen I said

I've studied the charts

And if what I am thinking is right

There's another new world

At the top of the world for

The first one who breaks through the ice

And I looked around the room

In that way I once had

And I saw that they want to believe

So I said

All I've got are my guts and my God

Then I paused and the Annabel Lee

Oh the Annabel Lee

And I saw their eyes shine

The most beautiful ship in the sea

My Nina my Pinta my Santa Maria

And my beautiful Annabel Lee

That spring we set sail

The crowds waved from shore

And on board the crew waved their hats

But I never had family

Just the Annabel Lee

So I never had cause to look back

I just set the course north

And I'd study the charts

And towards dawn I drifted towards sleep

And I dreamed of the fine deep harbor

I'd find past the ice

For my Annabel 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

Till 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

Annabel's side and the crew gathered closer

At first for the warmth

But each day would bring a new set

Of tracks in the snow

Leading over the edge

Of the world till

I was the only one left

Then it gets cloudy

But it seems like I laid

There for days and maybe for months

Oh but Annabel held me

Just the two of us happy

To think back on all we had done

We talked of the other new 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 winds

Lashed her sides in the cold

I burned her to keep me alive

Every night in the loving embrace of her hold

And I won't call it rescue

That brought me back here

To the old world to drink and decline

And 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

Unknown tropical bird

And I smile in my sleep

Thinking Annabel Lee's finally

Made it to another new world

Yeah sometimes at night

In my dreams comes a singing

Of some unknown tropical bird

And I smile in my sleep

Thinking Annabel Lee's finally

Made it to another new world