Slim skinny girl showing socks

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 all the brave new world arise

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, free to play, never knowing he's astray

He 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 '89

Happy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have a vision now and then

Of a world where every neighbour is a friend