Todd Snider: Happy New Year
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This tune extends a January 1 wish for happiness... in both a birthday (Country Joe McDonald) and a New Year greeting - along the way, Todd Snider's resolutions segue into a shared treatise of his "evangelical agnostic" leanings...
i don't know what we're doing here
you don't "KNOW" what we're doing here
now christians don't walk out on me just yet
you know whose name i'm yelling as i'm clutching my chest
the one my dad told me to and his told him to
and i probably pray as much or more than you do
believe? shit, every word i sing
but believing and knowing, those are two different things
and if you're trying to change the way a stranger's life will have to go
i believe this is where i wanna stick to what i know
which is nothing you know, nothing for sure
P.S. Todd's new CD, The Excitement Plan, is due to be released on June 9 - you can read more about it here and here...
