The New World – Lyrics

More and More

You’re surrounded inside
Walk down to where it’s lighter
The word is out, and it says
Forget all you knew before

Rain lifting off the Cascades
They’re telling you it’s dangerous
More and more
Sun rising like a red blade
Through the silence
Even stillness lies

To slake one appetite
You’ll kill a million cultivars
Cry—but you’re blind to mistakes
How can you know
If you’re wrong or right?

I’m chafing at the restraints
I’m spinning out angrily
More and more
And racing down the riptides
Wish me well, then
Drop a dime on me

They’re leaving on the next plane
You see it in every pair of eyes
And shiver in the new rain
Go under
or swim through the night

Daydream Unbeliever

Nothing is ordinary
Elephant ear, coyote eye
Sing in an older language
Hold the lens up to the light
Or wander around in hell
Never decide
What strength is
I’m a daydream unbeliever
Daydream unbeliever

Coming to take you over
Though the wine is watered down
Thrums like a premonition
The heartbeat of real life
He says
Only the strong survive
He don’t
get to decide
What strength is
I’m a daydream unbeliever
Daydream unbeliever

I love my unbelief
Nevertheless