"Heaven's Gate"

I listened to New World last week and noticed a handful of small features that I'm finally getting around to writing about.

Unlike the other verses, which have perfect rhymes ("place" with "face" and "fast" with "last") or at least assonance ("safe" and "way"), the first verse of "Heaven's Gate" doesn't rhyme:

It took so long to see it

Perhaps I looked too hard

Sometimes it was just easier

To take another path

In a way, this lack of poetic cohesion matches the divergence that the lyrics describe.