Turn into the Wind

So I just joined a songwriter's book club where you are challenged to write a song based on the book you read. It was harder than I thought, but I am happy with the results. I approached the chorus to highlight one major theme of the book, which is not being afraid to live the life of which you dream. The verses I used to emphasize another main theme, which is love, and the idea that it can be found everywhere and we all are one love. I wanted the song to be relatable even if you hadn't read the book, but that didn't really happen! Oh well, pretty much all alt-J's songs are like that and I adore every single word I don't understand. :) 

Lyrics:

CHORUS
Beware, a cocoon can turn into a coffin
Safety betrays, it ain’t always your friend
Besides what is life if it’s not lived often
Be not afraid to turn into the wind 

1. I look at this life through a prism of lenses
A screen door in the wind swinging wild on its hinges
It slams then expands to show new scenery
I’ve been transformed by love’s alchemy

It swims in the tears of my proud father’s eyes
Roams the meadows of Spain, sings the sheep lullabies
Cloaked in the coat of a camouflaged king
Awakened a life that lived only in dreams

CHORUS

2.It even exists in a pyramid scheme
And my woman who waits by the oasis spring 
Rises like steam from the fresh blood of war
Laid under the shade of an old sycamore

It’s the legend that leads you to treasures untold
Pours lead in a mold, expects no less than gold
Pushes the sun on its course in the sky
Wooshes like wind, never born nor will die

Beware, a cocoon can turn into a coffin
Be not afraid to turn into the wind