Happy New Year

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