New Year's Eve's the Loneliest Night of the Year

It's the thirty-first of December
'Round midnight, I suppose
I've been drinking since September
And the time just kind of goes
No party mood, just room for two
Me all alone with my last beer
New Year's Eve's the loneliest night of the year

Your leaving left a bitter taste
Like lithium in the stream
But I wouldn't change you for all the stolen Roman marble
In the British Museum
All gone, it's lost, I'll count the cost
One lonely night for every tear
New Year's Eve's the loneliest night of the year

It had to be in winter
When the nights last most the day
I haven't smiled since summer
When I mistook the world for okay
I guess I'll spend another year that way

Now my only resolution
Is to stagger through this day
Somewhere Sinatra growls low
And a dog whistles my way
The death knell strikes, it's near midnight
And all so painfully clear
New Year's Eve's the loneliest night of the year

It had to be in winter
When the nights last most the day
I haven't smiled since summer
When I mistook the world for okay
I guess I'll spend another year that way