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1. No more champagne, and the fireworks are through,
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here we are, me and you feeling lost and feeling blue.
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It's the end of the party, and the morning seems so grey
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B7
Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
Em
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may we all have a vision now and then,
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of a world where every neighbour is a friend.
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B7
Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
Em
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may we all have our hopes, our will to try,
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if we don't, we might as well lay down and die,
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you and I .
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2. Sometimes I see how the brave new world arrives,
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and I see how it thrives in the ashes of our lives.
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B7
Oh yes, man is a fool and he thinks he'll be ok,
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dragging on (ooh) feet of clay (ooh), never knowing he's astray,
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keeps on going anyway.
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B7
Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
Em
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may we all have a vision now and then,
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of a world where every neighbour is a friend.
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B7
Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
Em
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E
may we all have our hopes, our will to try,
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if we don't, we might as well lay down and die,
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you and I .
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3. Seems to me now that the dreams we had before
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are all dead, nothing more than confetti on the floor.
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It's the end of a decade, in another ten years time
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who can say (ooh) what we'll find (ooh),
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what lies waiting down the line,
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in the end of Eighty-nine?
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