© Lucy Wise 2015

Happy new year Melbourne
My strange lover
To your brass band
I’m dancing with my mother

Song from a long time ago
With creases blue
In a bar of beautiful strangers
Taking refuge

And oh how wicked you are
You put us all together
Then pull us apart
And now you hurl us gently onward
From the end to the start

There are some days I feel I’ve never met you
There are some days I feel you know me best
But tonight we stop to find what we’ve forgotten
In all the running ‘round, trying to be our best

And oh how wicked you are
You put us all together
Then pull us apart
And now you hurl us gently onward
From the end to the start

Now some are watching on the hill
Some are on the rooftops
All eyes on the time
Will we forever be just stopping by?

Happy new year Melbourne
In this room
Is the song that is the heart of you
Let’s pull all the tables out
We’re not afraid of dancing
Let’s hold up our glasses
And toast to this big old moon

And oh how wicked you are
You put us all together
Then pull us apart
And now you hurl us gently onward

And oh how wicked you are
You put us all together
Then pull us apart
And now you hurl us gently onward
From the end to the start