New Years Day Lyrics - Ashes & Roses - Mary Chapin Carpenter

We are sitting at a table in a bar in Baltimore 

It's the last night of December 

And the room is nearly full 

And the front door pulls a draft in every time it opens wide 

And you are telling me a story 

From another time and life 

And the waitress brings our order 

And we're tucked in mighty close 

And I feel like we belong among 

The living and these ghosts 

And I know that I am dreaming 

As I memorize each part 

In the telling lies a reverie 

In the details lie the heart 

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Like the folds of summer dresses 

Like the scent upon my wrist 

Like the way you played guitar 

Like a boxer punches with his fist 

And taken or just lost to me 

It's better now to say 

I dwell in possibility 

On New Year's Day 

There's a jukebox or a bandstand 

And we're on another round 

And the night's just getting started 

Or the night's just winding down 

And your stories are not clouded yet by the ale 

Or by the gin 

They just make me feel as if I've known you 

All my life again 

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Like the folds of summer dresses 

Like the scent upon my wrist 

Like the way you played guitar 

Like a boxer punches with his fist 

And taken or just lost to me 

It's better now to say 

I dwell in possibility 

On New Year's Day 

And this is what it looked like 

When we started walking home 

The night sky bleached to silver 

Against the city's bones 

In dreams or in our waking 

It's just enough to say 

Love and grace and endless flowers 

Be ours on New Year's Day 

And the folds of summer dresses 

And the bangles on my wrist 

And the way you played guitar 

Like a boxer punches with his fist 

And taken or just lost to us 

It's better now to say 

We dwell in possibility 

On New Year's Day