Happy New Year

by Olivia Rafferty

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Happy New Year is the first single which originally started out as one of my tiny songs (number 19 if I remember correctly). I pictured myself wandering through a dark coastal town, by the large boats in the harbour and asking those new years questions we all ask -- is my life special? am i missing out? should I be doing more? Happy New Year skirts around these questions & then lands on the answer: go see a friend and stop staring into the abyss, already.

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city closed
by the coast i wander silent as a ghost
i didn’t eat
but i drank enough to filter out the cold
i can hear a firework and some song i don’t know
someone’s kissing someone and they’re raising up a toast

happy new year
happy new year
happy new year

here I stalled
by boats from norway loom bigger the mall
could stow away
then I’d sail them up to where the water falls
see the stars and time as flat as writing on a wall
i’m on the edge of something good or nothing else at all

happy new year
happy new year
happy new year

the bells go on
i go back home
and suddenly i’m warm and humming
i call my mum
i get the bottle
for the first foot in the morning
i go to sleep
i dream of circles
and the line is never ending
i get up as
the moment passes
in the sky the sun is rising

happy new year
happy new year
happy new year

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released December 26, 2022
written by Olivia Rafferty
guitar, keys & vox: Olivia Rafferty
guitar, bass, mix: James Li
master: Miguel Leon

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crunchy homegrown songs by a scottish gal w/ feelings

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