1 Response to Music of the day – Happy New Year (Abba)

1. Reflection says:

   January 2, 2024 at 5:15 pm

   Stella,

   Hope you don’t mind. I could never quite comprehend the lyrics to this song. It seemed sweetly sad.

   So I copied the lyrics, and the chorus is a rallying cry.

   [Verse 1]
   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

   [Chorus]
   Happy new year, happy new year
   May we all have a vision now and then
   Of a world where every neighbour 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

   [Verse 2]
   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 astray
   Keeps on going anyway

   [Chorus]
   Happy new year, happy new year
   May we all have a vision now and then
   Of a world where every neighbour 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

   [Verse 3]
   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

   [Chorus]
   Happy new year, happy new year
   May we all have a vision now and then
   Of a world where every neighbour 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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