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No more champagne

 And the fireworks are through

 Here we are, me and you

 Feeling lost and feeling blue

 It's the end of the party

 And the morning seems so grey

 So unlike yesterday

 Now's the time for us to say...

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have a vision now and then

 Of a world where every neighbor is a friend

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have our hopes, our will to try

 If we don't we might as well lay down and die

 You and I

Sometimes I see

 How the brave new world arrives

 And I see how it thrives

 In the ashes of our lives

 Oh yes, man is a fool

 And he thinks he'll be okay

 Dragging on, feet of clay

 Never knowing he's a stray

 Keeps on going anyway...

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have a vision now and then

 Of a world where every neighbor is a friend

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have our hopes, our will to try

 If we don't we might as well lay down and die

 You and I

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Seems to me now

 That the dreams we had before

 Are all dead, nothing more

 Than confetti on the floor

 It's the end of a decade

 In another ten years time

 Who can say what we'll find?

 What lies waiting down the line

 In the end of eighty-nine...

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have a vision now and then

 Of a world where every neighbor is a friend

 Happy new year

 Happy new year

 May we all have our hopes, our will to try

 If we don't we might as well lay down and die

You and I

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