Lyrics Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson

Happy Days And Auld Lang Syne

He said, Dear, I’m leaving, right there in the hallway

As the party roared on all around

And her head wouldn’t turn, O she couldn’t look at him

In a whirlpool she quietly drowned

And she said to herself, I won’t cry, I won’t grieve

But I’ll laugh and I’ll flow with the wine

With the fast love of strangers we’ll sing Sweet Bye

and Bye

Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne

How I wish I knew

All the old songs they’re singing

Such comfort they’re bringing

To a heart that’s as empty as mine

O it lifts you so high

Does the Sweet Bye and Bye

Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne

And she said, I’ll be wearing my smile like a mask

And I’ll care for each stranger I kiss

And no-one will know that I’m wounded and cheated

So close to my moment of bliss

And sometimes you never connect with a song

Till it’s telling the way that you feel

Putting words to your story, all the pain and the glory

How can it be written so real

How I wish I knew

All the old songs they’re singing

Such comfort they’re bringing

To a heart that’s as empty as mine

O it lifts you so high

Does the Sweet Bye and Bye

Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne