Happy New Year-Todd Snider

[ti:Happy New Year] [ar:Todd Snider] [al:The Devil You Know] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Happy New Year - Todd Snider [00:02.54]Everybody [00:05.60] [00:12.22]There's an overweight man with an overweight woman [00:14.71]On a sofa watching TV [00:17.08]He's yelling his opinion at the television [00:19.70]She looks up from her food and agrees [00:22.07]They got two bumper stickers on there pick up truck [00:24.82]They keep the pick up parked outside [00:27.57]One sticker says What would Jesus do [00:29.82]The other bumper sticker says Power of pride [00:32.50]I was thumbing through the stations on my own television [00:35.12]When I come across a guy on this religious station [00:37.49]Singing Somebody's coming [00:38.87]He's sounding whiter than me somehow [00:40.61] [00:41.69]Wow it took me back in time through dwindling joy [00:45.06]To when I was such a guilt ridden Catholic boy [00:47.81]I'm evangelical agnostic now [00:50.30] [00:54.04]I don't know what we're doing here [00:56.78]You don't know what we're doing here [01:00.96] [01:03.08]Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet [01:05.76]You know whose name I'll be yelling as I'm clutching my chest [01:08.39]The one my dad told me to and his told him to [01:10.88]And I probably pray as much or more than you do [01:13.50]Believing sh*t every word I sing [01:15.81]But believing and knowing those are two different things [01:18.43]And if your trying to change the way a strangers life will have to go [01:21.30]I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know [01:23.86]Which is nothing you know nothing for sure [01:26.25]So just chill till the next episode [01:28.68]Now back to the lecture at hand [01:31.11]Seems like my neighbor wants to kill what he can't understand [01:33.55]I say we can't just kill what we don't understand [01:36.23]But I turn on my TV and see that oh yeah we can [01:39.60]We can and we have since then dawn of man [01:41.85]For countless gods whose only real seeming plan [01:43.97]Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate [01:46.84]And you gotta admit that life's pretty great [01:49.96] [01:51.08]But can we deny that it's killing us [01:56.39]I'll be here all week [01:59.57]Happy New Year everybody [02:04.56]Happy Birthday country joe [02:09.37]I resolve to do like I always do [02:14.61]I ain't hurtin' you [02:20.85] [02:51.12]If life is anything it's embarrassing [02:54.06]A rusty nail through a careless shoe [02:56.30]You can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes [02:58.55]Why there's never anything the nail can do [03:01.12]Or think about how unfair it is [03:03.55]That the shoe is always going where it's got to [03:06.24]If you ain't the dumb kid out running around [03:08.67]You kinda gotta do what you're born to do [03:11.17]Hey happy new year everybody [03:16.16]And specifically Happy Birthday to you country joe [03:21.22]I resolve to do what I always do [03:26.21]And I only ever make it a day or two