A shit year ends I kiss my friends We raise half empty glasses To the next one And the night wears on Not for us the usual fuss The useless resolutions But most a line of auld lang syne Far away Fireworks are exploding And the champagne flutes are full To overflowing So at first light I say goodnight And while the suburb slumbers I stumble around the stomping ground Past the pub they're pretty up For all the so-called locals And past the house That once was ours And here I am Another year beginning Half-way home with the get-to-bed birds singing