Happy New Year Anyway

from The Workers Are Weary, Let Them Go Home by Brian Connell

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Your girlfriend drove me here tonight, we didn't talk at all,
Roxette was on the radio as we went past the mall,
Her cell phone rang a couple times, but she ignored the call,
It's been a long, disturbing day.
She walked through the door just ahead of me,
I saw you come in through the kitchen, she saw you come in through the kitchen,
And everybody's drinking now, they want to sing and play,
And it's time to dry my eyes and have a happy new year anyway.

There's nothing in the pantry but candied yams and rice,
There's no one in the living room that I would look at twice.
I go into the back room to try and find some ice,
She's there with one leg against the wall.
She's laughing at something that somebody said,
But it isn't something that you said, no it's never something that you said,
And both her feet are on the ground, and now she comes my way,
And it's time to dry my eyes and have a happy new year anyway.

And you only want to be left alone,
Well that's what you told me on Monday, and that's what you told me on Sunday,
And someone dies on Christmas Eve every single year,
And it's time to dry my eyes and have a happy new year anyway.

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from The Workers Are Weary, Let Them Go Home, released November 7, 2012

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