No more champagne
and the fireworks are through.
Here we are me and you,
feeling lost and feeling blue.
It's the end of the party
and the morning seems so grey,
so unlike yesterday.
Now's time for us to say:
Happy new year! happy new year!
May we all have a vision, now and then,
of the world where ev'ry neighbor is friend.
Happy new year! happy new year!
May we all have our hopes our wills to try
if we don't we might as well lay down die. You and I...
Sometimes I see
how the brave new world arrives.
And I see how it thrives
in the ashes of our lives.
Oh, yes man is fool
and he think he be okay,
dragging on feet of clay,
never knowing he's astray
Seems to me now
that the dreams we had before
are all dead nothing more
than confetti on the floor.
It's the end of the decade,
in another ten year times
who can say what we'll find,
that lies waiting down the lines
Happy new year! happy new year!
May we all have a vision, now and then,
of the world where ev'ry neighbor is friend.
Happy new year! happy new year!
May we all have our hopes our wills to try
if we don't we might as well lay down die. You and I...