Todd Snider - Happy New Year lyrics

Happy New Year everybody Happy birthday Country Joe I resolve to do like I always do There's an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa just watching tv Hes yelling his opinion at the television she looks up from her food and agrees They got two bumper stickers on their pick-up truck They keep the pick-up parked outside One sticker says "what would jesus do?" The other bumper sticker says "power of pride" I was thumbing through the stations on my own television When I came across a guy on the religious station Singing "Somebody's Coming" sounding whiter than me somehow Wow It took me back in time through dwindling joy To when i was such a guilt-ridden catholic boy I'm Evangelical Agnostic now I don't know what we're doing here You don't "KNOW" what were doing here Now Christians don't walk out on me just yet You know whose name I'll be yelling as I'm clutching my chest The one my dad told me to and his told him to And I probably pray as much or more than you do Believe? sh**, every word i sing But believing and knowing, those are two different things And if you're trying to change the way a stranger's life will have to go I believe this is where I wanna stick to what I know Which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so Just chill 'til the next episode Now back to the lecture at hand Seems like my neighbor wants to k** what he can't understand I say we can't just k** what we don't understand But i turn on my tv and see that, oh yes we can We can and we have since then dawn of man For countless gods whose only real seeming plan Was to see to it that clinging to life was our fate And you gotta admit that life's pretty great But Can we deny that its k**ing us? I'll be here all week Happy New Year everybody Happy birthday Country Joe I resolve to do like I always do I ain't hurtin you If life is anything it's embarra**ing A rusty nail through a careless shoe You can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes Why there's never anything the poor nail can do Or think about how unfair it is That the shoe is only going where it has to too If you ain't the dumb kid out running around You kinda gotta do what you're born to do Hey Happy New Year everybody Specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I resolve to do like I always do And I only ever make it a day or two