No more champagne and the fireworks 
are through here we are 
me and you feeling lost 
and feeling blue it’s the end 
of the party and the morning 
seems so grey so unlike 
yesterday now’s the time for us to say

Happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have a vision 
now and then 
of a world where 
every neighbour is a friend 
happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have our hopes 
our will to try 
if we don’t 
we might as well 
lay down and die 
you and I

Sometimes I see how the brave new 
world arrives and I see 
how it thrives in the ashes 
of our lives oh yes, man is a fool 
and he thinks he’ll be okay 
dragging on feet of clay 
never knowing he’s astray 
keeps on going anyway

Happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have a vision 
now and then 
of a world where 
every neighbour is a friend 
happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have our hopes 
our will to try 
if we don’t 
we might as well 
lay down and die 
you and I

Seems to me now 
that the dreams 
we had before 
are all dead 
nothing more 
than confetti 
on the floor 
it’s the end of a decade 
in another ten years time 
who can say 
what we’ll find 
what lies waiting 
down the line 
in the end of 
eighty-nine

Happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have a vision 
now and then 
of a world where 
every neighbour is a friend 
happy new year 
happy new year 
may we all 
have our hopes 
our will to try 
if we don’t 
we might as well 
lay down and die 
you and I