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The Year Before the Year 2000 Lyrics
If you fear, my dear, the end is near
Please do check your frontal hemisphere
Bitty chicky thinks the sky will fall
You should sense I've guessed it just won't end at all
It's hard to keep from hoarding
When you wake up Monday morning
In your life with no end in sight
You thought you'd die on Friday night
Everybody, please keep trying
Trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time
We need to spend it like it's 1999
If you want to close the bar tonight
Brace yourself 'cause there's no end in sight
You can't pace yourself and you can't take it slow
We have to drink it dry before this place is gonna close
It's hard to keep on spending
Every night like your life is ending
When every night there's another there
Wearing you down with the moonlight's stare
Everybody, please keep trying
Trying to party like it's 1999
Even thought we've got so much time
We gotta spend it like it's 1999
1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999's alright
Please do check your frontal hemisphere
Bitty chicky thinks the sky will fall
You should sense I've guessed it just won't end at all
When you wake up Monday morning
In your life with no end in sight
You thought you'd die on Friday night
Everybody, please keep trying
Trying to party like it's 1999
Even though we've got so much time
We need to spend it like it's 1999
Brace yourself 'cause there's no end in sight
You can't pace yourself and you can't take it slow
We have to drink it dry before this place is gonna close
Every night like your life is ending
When every night there's another there
Wearing you down with the moonlight's stare
Everybody, please keep trying
Trying to party like it's 1999
Even thought we've got so much time
We gotta spend it like it's 1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999
1999's alright
1999's alright
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these guys hate the work week. i love it.
dudes! c'mon! this song is awesome!
it's about partying all the time. yup
best song on the new album?
only three comments? weak.
this is one of my favorites off this album. catchy, with a side effect of need to party. I too loathe business days.
yeah it's about partying all the time but in the second chorus it shows doubts about that sort of lifestyle and if you can keep it up. a lot of people i know who live like that seem sad and empty, maybe a result of partying like it's 1999.
Anyone noticed this is a parody of Prince's 1999? Maybe that's why the title is The year... rather than 1999?
It's a rather well-worded way of saying "Whether the end is going to happen soon or not, enjoy life."
Referring to the year 2000, when there was a lot of religious controversy about the rapture. Life was supposed to end, and some believed it, others did not. Either way, have fun and party like the world just might end. Life isn't eternal.
As an added note:
December 31, 1999 was on a Friday night, which refers to the lyric "In your life with no end in sight You thought you'd die on Friday night"
Clever guys!