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Exclusive: CUTTING-EDGE COMPOSERS CORNER- Daniel Zaitchik Sings 'New Year's Eve'
Nov 9, 2022
We're featuring one of our favorite singer-songwriters this week, Daniel Zaitchik! Here he is performing 'New Year's Eve' at our concert at 54 Below.
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Can we skip the fireworks? Can we skip the boom and blur? I don't trust fireworks. They show me things that never work
0:24
I never wished on a shooting star or caught lightning buzz in a mason jar, but those lights seem to say, man, you should have
0:42
Can we skip the fireworks? Can we skip remember when
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They print my eyelids When they burst When I try to sleep
1:00
There they are again And all the smoke That they leave behind
1:09
Plays a bitter joke Draws a blurry line between the truth of how I spent my time and how I should have
1:24
Can we skip New Year's Eve? Can we skip all the haze and the cheer
1:32
Oh, will I ever do? Wonder where she is Wonder where I was last year
1:41
I still don't know how the world began I still don't know my place
1:50
In the cosmic play And will anyone kiss me? Will anyone miss me when the count goes down
2:02
Are you going to pout on there at the piano or are you going to come upstairs and join the party
2:09
Piano pout. It's New Year's Eve. It's New Year's Eve. You're an asshole
2:18
Yes, but only for the next ten minutes. At midnight, everything changes
2:24
We all get the chance to become the people we always wanted to be because of the completely arbitrary position of the planet So you drinking again
2:37
I'm hydrating. I get very dry in winter. Who decided to put New Year's Eve in the middle of winter anyway
2:44
It doesn't make any sense. Happy New Year! Everything's dead! You do realize it's not winter everywhere
2:51
In some places it's warm I don't know if that's true Put down the bottle
2:58
The world does not revolve around New York City That's definitely not true
3:02
Put down the bottle Put down the piano Come upstairs You missed the fireworks
3:10
Yeah, that's the point Is that me on A tire swing
3:19
Making a telephone Out of cans and string no delight Those sentimental lights
3:29
Have me inventing things you fireworks all the booze and birds all the used to be all the never were
3:51
Just pour me more of that starry wine. Now they're starting to sing
3:59
Old Lang Syne. What does the saddest tune you'll ever hear Ring in the new year
4:28
Here they are, it's too late And here come the ones I particularly hate
4:37
Those gorgeous gold ones That hang like
4:48
Weeping willow
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