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What better song could usher us into the new year than Ben Shive’s “New Year”, from The Ill-Tempered Klavier?

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New Year

This year
I’m gonna love you better than last year
I’m through repeating the past crimes
Learned my lesson the last time

And you say
You need more than a new day
I know I never had a true heart
But love is gonna give us a new start

It’s a new year, a new day
It’s a new scene in an old play
And I finally decided
Love is alive in the choice you make
To give it away
In a new year, a new dawn
It’s a new line in an old song
And I finally believe it
Love is the reason the past is gone
And the world turns on

Sometime
You gotta make up your mind
If all you really want is more love
You gotta give her your love

So you say a prayer and catch your breath
(Dear God, won’t you help her to see)
And you’re so alive and so scared to death
(That I’m not the man I used to be)
And you say what you mean, not what you meant to
(Believe me, baby, please)
She just smiles like, “what has got into you?”

It’s a new year, a new day
It’s a new scene in an old play
And I finally decided
Love is alive in the choice you make
To give it away
In a new year, a new dawn
It’s a new line in an old song
And I finally believe it
Love is the reason the past is gone
And the world turns on

It’s gonna happen sometime
You’re gonna make up your mind
If all you want is more love
You gotta give her your love

So you’re saying your prayers
And you’re so scared
But I believe that the past is gone
And that’s the reason the world turns on