New Earth

Darkness tucks me in at night
Creaking floorboards sing me lullabies
By the children's bedside table
The nightlight flickers, though it's able
As anything
But everything's against you
When you're afraid of anything.

Once I had a nightmare I was
Reaching for the book
There on my bedside table
I was looking for rest, I was looking for light
But it was empty, it was empty as a starless night
The whole of space, the whole of time
Swallowed me up and I woke up crying.

What if I die here
All alone?
I wanna go home.

Once I heard a doorbell ring
In perfect tune with the songs I sing
So I ran and I looked through the glass
I saw shapes of a nuclear blast
And I figured things were getting worse pretty fast
So I let time pass, ‘cause I figured things
Were getting much worse, real fast.

What if I die here
All alone?
I wanna go home.

In life I drink it, in death it should drink me
So please my darling bury me at sea
In life it washes, in death it washes away
So place my broken body on a restless wave.

If I die here
All alone
Let it be so
I wanna go home
I wanna go home.