So this is the new year    and I don't feel any different       the clanking of crystal    explosions off in the distance    in the distance...       so this is the new year    and I have no resolution       it's self-assigned penance?    for problems with easy solutions       so everybody put your best suit or dress on    let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once    lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn    as thirty dialogues bleed into one    I wish the world was flat like the old days    so I could travel just by folding the map    no more airplanes or speed-trains or freeways    there'd be no distance that could hold us back       there'd be no distance that could hold us back   there'd be no distance that could hold us back      so this is the new year   so this is the new year   so this is the new year   so this is the new year