Toast To The New Year

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While the light is still bright, we bring the year to a close.
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Sometimes we're standing there naked,
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frozen in our own past, and winter's ritual colors.
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She rings out her last
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And in the richest of seasons, in these colors we bathe,
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we greet the onset of winter and what we know she will take.


[Chorus]

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And so you make resolutions, if it's all just the same
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If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?


[Verse 2]

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In black and light, the year is formally closed
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Yet still the darkest of seasons shimmer silver and gold
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So let's dress up like penguins, we'll huddle en masse
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We will ring in the new year, we'll throw a curse to the last


[Chorus 2]

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And so we make resolutions, if it's all just the same
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If a wound is a wound, why not just cut myself upon change?
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And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
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May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs


[Solo]

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[Chorus 3]
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And so a toast to the New Year, and farewell to the last
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May we dream ourselves forward, frozen wind at our backs
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Another toast to the New Year, may we spring back to life
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When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light
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May we spring back to life... may we spring back to life
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When the colors start shifting in the burgeoning light


[Other]

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In black and white, the year is formally closed.