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 neighbor is a friend.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
May we all have our hopes, and will to try,
If we don’t we might as well lie 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

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


By: Abba (1980)