So this is the new year
And I don't feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
In the distance

So this is the new year
And I have no resolutions
Or self assigned penance
For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on
Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once
Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn
As thirty dialogues bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days
Then I could travel just by folding a map
No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways
There'd be no distance that could hold us back

There'd be no distance that could hold us back
There'd be no distance that could hold us back

So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year
So this is the new year


Lyrics submitted by heartattack

The New Year Lyrics as written by Christopher Walla Benjamin Gibbard

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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    The lyrics are good, but the song it self got old after listening to it a few times. Anyone else feel that way too?

    Benjamminon May 06, 2004   Link

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