Is Anything Different

Fireworks are sparking all across the sky
Confetti a'flying, but I can't remember why
My heart grows heavy as the final seconds descend

The color of wonder, the gleam in the eyes
As the past is buried beneath a thousand goodbyes
I'm torn in two between the beginning and the end

Just give me a bottle, a boge, and I won't complain
About those who never bother, and those who never change
She asks me to have this brown cardigan, my granddad's long ago
I told her no, she whined and I broke, and I replied well you know... fine

Is anything different, anything at all
We wake up aching, and reach to make the call
Surely by tomorrow, these streets will resound with a why

I buy myself a ticket, to seek another man
Hoping things might be different in some other land
But nothing's changed, and what've I to blame, but a lie

Just hand me the bottle, a boge, and I won't complain
About hearts that never soften, and needs that never change
She wraps herself about my shifting form like a coil of smoke
She looks at me and sighs, and asks me how I am, and I reply, what a awful
Joke... but fine

Now the streets are all abandoned, the drunkards stumbled home
Confetti has fallen, now it's soaking in the road
My heart grows heavy as another new year begins