It's been a long December.

"The New Year"

by Deathcab For Cutie

So this is the new year.

And i don't feel any different.

The clanking of crystal

Explosions off in the distance (in the distance).

So this is the new year

And I have no resolutions

For self assigned penance

For problems with easy solutions

So everybody put your best suit or dress on

Let's make believe that we are wealthy for just this once

Lighting firecrackers off on the front lawn

As thirty dialogs bleed into one

I wish the world was flat like the old days

Then i could travel just by folding a map

No more airplanes, or speed trains, or freeways

There'd be no distance that could hold us back.

There'd be no distance that could hold us back [x2]

So this is the new year [x4]

This song perfectly encompasses how I always feel contemplating the new year.

(Does anyone else feel sense of emptness and sadness around new years?)

I never have resolutions because if you want to change your life simply trying to do so without making a big fuss about it seems the most logical way. Most of the "in the next year" crap is just a way that people can make themsleves feel better about a problem they refuse to do anything about in the present.