Todd Snider - Happy New Year lyrics

happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe i resolve to do like i always do theres 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 there 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 religous station singing "somebodys coming" sounding whiter than me somehow wow it took me back in time thru dwindling joy to when i was such a guilt ridden catholic boy im evangelical agnostic now i dont know what we're doing here you don't "KNOW" what were doing here now christians dont walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im 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? shit, every word i sing but believing and knowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the way a strangers 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 kill what he cant understand i say we cant just kill what we dont 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 lifes pretty great but can we deny that its killing us? ill be here all week happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe i resolve to do like i always do i aint hurtin you if life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail thru a careless shoe you cant 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 aint the dumb kid out running around you kinda gotta do what your 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