These are the lyrics to The New Year, the first song from the Transatlanticism album by Death Cab for Cutie.

I would also recommend the music video, available from Launch. (Random piece of music trivia: this is one of two music videos I've ever seen that never shows the band. The other isn't worth watching.)

really really cool song....




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 resolutions
for 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
then i could travel just by folding a map
no more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways
there'd be no distance that can hold us back.

there'd be no distance that could hold us back

so this is the new year