This Year Lyrics – Two Strangers

Press pause on the world
Leaving everything suspended in it's place
Zoom in on the girl
With the featureless expression on her face

Stranded on the sidelines
Keeping life at bay
She's watching as the moments slip away

This year
The summer and the fall just blew across her phone
This year
Every chance she had she spent the day alone

The fireworks and the countdown
Sing Auld Lang Syne and cheer
Will it all just be the same
Next year?

It's nice on your own
You can never get it wrong if you refuse
To answer the phone
To let anybody close enough to lose

But all the time I'm waiting
I'm drifting out to sea
And nobody can change the tide but me
This year
The winter and the wind can blow the windows out
This year
The voices in the dark can bawl and scream and shout


But if I listen closely
There's someone I can hear
The someone I could be
This year

Wide awake in the city tonight
And the world is alive in the flickering light
In the anticipation of the girl that you might still be
Will be

Take strength in the word
Is there really something moving in your heart?
Down Bowery and 3rd
At the corner of a world about to start

And all the lights are blazing
In green and red and gold
And everything looks clearer in the cold

And this time
The weather of the world that swirls inside my mind
This year
Is gonna be the year I leave it all behind
And after all the stormclouds
The sky is blowing clear
And something in the distance
Is slowly drawing near

There's everything to hope for
And everything to fear
And all the world is new
This year

And all the world is new
This year
Last Update: September, 03rd 2025