Happy New Year Lyrics - Todd Snider

Happy new year everybody 

Happy birthday country joe 

I resolve to do like I always do 

There's an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa just watching tv 

Hes 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 came across a guy on the religious station 

Singing "somebody's coming" 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 were doing here 

Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet 

You know whose name I'm 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 

Believe? 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 til the next episode 

Now back to the lecture at hand 

Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he cant understand 

I say we cant just kill what we dont understand 

But I turn on my tv and see that oh yes 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 its killing us? 

Ill 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 its embarrassing 

A rusty nail through a careless shoe 

You cant help but sit around and wonder sometimes 

Why there's never anything the poor nail can do 

Or think about how unfair it is 

That the shoe is only going where it has to too 

If you ain't the dumb kid out running around 

You kinda gotta do what your born to do 

Hey 

Happy new year everybody 

Specifically happy birthday to you country joe 

I resolve to do like I always do 

And I only ever make it a day or two