Another New World

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