New Year's Project

Well, its 12 hours and 4 minutes into the new year....

Who cares?

I've never really understood the celebration of new year's. Most holidays exist to mark a special event or to celebrate the life of a notable person, but new year's is totally arbitrary and based on a somewhat futile human-made system of time management.

So everyone makes "resolutions" as if the passing of another day will motivate them to change, and that is a fallacy as only the Holy Spirit can enact true change in our lives. Then they all go get drunk so that they don't even remember the passing of the year... new year's is little more than an example of and celebration of our pathetic excesses.

That being said, I've always loved the song "New Year's Project" by Further Seems Forever. It has a hopeful yet dreadful tone, and it is a reminder that even if a "new year" is arbitrary, it may indeed offer us a new perspective on things.

So cheers.

"New Year's Project"

Your hands didn't move
well neither did mine.
New Years will bring
so much to say
but nothing comes out right
both of us left without words
both of us lost in this world
it's softer than ever before.

And you were the outline
of everything you would become.
The keeper of these hands.
To hold you now
it is a far cry more than
anything that I deserve.

I'm waiting to give you
whatever the world may bring
I'd give you my life
cause I don't own anything.
It seemed like the bottom
was all that I had
until now
I'd give you my life
if you'd give me
yours somehow.

Your hands didn't move
well neither did mine
New Years will bring me to you.
I'm waiting to give you
whatever the world may bring
I'd give you my life
cause I don't own anything.
It seemed like the bottle
was all that I had
until now
I'd give you my life
if you'd give me
yours somehow.

(Words by Christopher Carraba, music by Further Seems Forever)