New World - David Wilcox

I wrap around you skin to skin

We sleep inside this curl

And after how alone we’ve been

It’s like a whole new world

My heart had felt like years at sea

Freezing and afraid

Breathe the life back into me

Kiss me warm that way

New world — big horizon

Open your eyes and see it’s true

New world — across the frightening

Waves of blue

The old world had attractions

But hunger in my soul

Resumes and power plays

Where lust was just control

Roll me over slowly

Warm, sun-baked sand

The ocean of my loneliness

Has carried me to land

New world — sun is rising

We were wise just to see it through

The new world second chance

For me, second chance for you

A mile or more of shoreline

And no one else around

And the way my heart is pounding now

I feel as if we’ve found

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