Happy New Year Lyrics - The Devil You Know - Snider Todd

Happy New Year, everybody 

There's an overweight man with an overweight woman 

On a sofa watching TV 

He's yelling his opinion at the television 

She looks up from her food and agrees 

They got two bumper stickers on there pick up truck 

They keep the pick up parked outside 

One sticker says, "What would Jesus do?" 

The other bumper sticker says, "Power of pride" 

I was thumbing through the stations on my own television 

When I come across a guy on this religious station 

Singing, "Somebody's coming" 

He's sounding whiter than me somehow 

Wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy 

To when I was such a guilt ridden Catholic boy 

I'm evangelical agnostic now 

I don't know what we're doing here 

You don't know what we're doing here 

Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet 

You know whose name I'll be yelling as I'm clutching my chest 

The one my dad told me to and his told him to 

And I probably pray as much or more than you do 

Believing shit, every word I sing 

But believing and knowing, those are two different things 

And if your trying to change the way a strangers life will have to go 

I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know 

Which is nothing you know, nothing for sure 

So just chill till the next episode 

Now back to the lecture at hand 

Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he can't understand 

I say we can't just kill what we don't understand 

But I turn on my TV and see that, oh, yeah, we can 

We can and we have since then dawn of man 

For countless gods whose only real seeming plan 

Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate 

And you gotta admit that life's pretty great 

But can we deny that it's killing us? 

I'll be here all week 

Happy New Year, everybody 

Happy Birthday country joe 

I resolve to do like I always do 

I ain't hurtin' you 

If life is anything it's embarrassing 

A rusty nail through, a careless shoe 

You can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes 

Why there's never anything the nail can do 

Or think about how unfair it is 

That the shoe is always going where it's got to 

If you ain't the dumb kid out running around 

You kinda gotta do what you're born to do 

Hey, happy new year, everybody 

And specifically Happy Birthday to you country joe 

I resolve to do what I always do 

And I only ever make it a day or two