Semisonic - This Will Be My Year Lyrics

Happy 2020

I wish these guys would play the UK again

Thursday's crush is a Friday night rush
And a Monday morning cry
It's the tail that you keep chasing
And it gets away every time
New Years eve and it's hard to believe
Another Zodiac's gone around
While you drank yourself high on hoping
And watched the ceiling spin from the ground

Counting down from ten it's time
To make your annual prayer
Secret Santa in the sky
When will I get my share

Then you tell yourself
What you want to hear
Cause you have to believe
This will be my year

Pound your fist and cross it off your list
But you know you're not that strong
When the man at the stop light catches you
Singing along to a brand new song

Well maybe it's
Trash or the overnight smash that brings your
Ship crashing through the wall
So you can make your grand departure
From a world getting way too small

One wheel in the ditch another
Spinning in the air

Put your pedal down to the floorboard but you're not
Getting anywhere

Then you tell yourself
What you want to hear
Cause you have to believe
This will be my year

Happy 2018

time to listen to this before 2018

Still listening in 2017, almost 2018! Happy New Year :)

Happy new year!

2019 now and still love it. Just came to mind seemingly randomly.

dedicated as always, to the Chicago Cubs (has been for 15 years)

I wish for a soul mate ...I dream of her ...one day she will make wanna live life to the fullest again...

Happy 2017 everyone

Happy new year

I'm surprised at the low view count. Amazing band.

watchin semi sonic..... a disc I had as a teen in 2001 or something... now iget to watch swiss chalet commercial.... seems legit

New Year's Eve song forever haha...

Yep... 2015 still has time t...

ótima musica;]

There's a conversation about Closing Time below - IMO Closing Time got the airplay it did because it literally became the song that bars would play when they closed and it gave people a lot of hazy boozy vaguely good feeling memories as a result.  I think Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" is a more recent analogue - it captures a party moment.  It's not a terrible song, it's just not the strongest song on the album.

Like everyone else here, this is one of my new years' songs. Thanks for posting it.

Happy New Year!

Always listen to this tune on NYE

Semisonic: incredible band as a while and Dan's prowess as an unstoppable songwriter is undeniable... however, this song in particular was written by drummer, Jake Slichter...give the drummer some ;-)

jake is seriously SUCH an underrated drummer! dude is a total monster! the drumming on "completely pleased" is still so ahead of its time!

This will be my year!!!

long live semisonic

ahh..great song..great band

Years come and go, this is still wonderful. I get very happy reading you nice people liking and commenting it. Regardless of the point of view, this is a great song. Happy another new year, everyone! May your wishes come true.

Dan Wilson is one of the greatest songwriters of the 1990s, and probably the most underrated. There's a reason he writes for Adele today. Feeling Strangely Fine had so many songs on it that deserved just as much (if not more) airtime than Closing Time. Especially this one, She's Got It All Worked Out and very especially Never You Mind.

Absolutely agree! Just an FYI, this is the rare Semisonic song that was written by Jake Slichter, the drummer.

This was my #1 album from the age of 12 until I was 16... I knew I had good taste. Well said @Pikeman327

I never gave this band a chance until today, because "Closing Time" was such weeny, wussy piece of crap, and still is. This is a very good band, I just don't know how, or why "Closing Time" got the airplay it did, and that's all I cared to hear from them, but whoah! The rest of the stuff I heard is far superior, you never can tell what passes for good, or passes for crap.

@mfgodwin I agree with your synopsis.

Lol its new years eve and i just found this song. This will be my year.

This song is the epitome of New Year's Eve!

One of the best albums ever.

I think that. Such a great album to just have on in your house.

@ulaol10 Songs never die. Last year, I requested to a radio station to play Closing Time by Semisonic and they didn't have that album, so I went on Amazon and bought them some Semisonic and Third Eye Blind albums and they still play them occasionally.

@janainadmorais0 Not even close. This has been my favorite band for over a year now!

@janainadmorais0 Wow, I had the exact opposite reaction to this song. I've always interpreted the lyrics as reflecting the misery of someone who wants desperately for something to go his way, for life to get better. As each year draws to a close, he allows himself to feel slightly optimistic that the next year won't suck so bad - while knowing all the while that this optimism is just a soothing lie: "You tell yourself what you want to hear, 'cause you have to believe this will be my year."

This is a song that sounds upbeat and happy, but the lyrics are absolutely brutal. Dan Wilson is a genius and one of the most underrated songwriters of his generation, and Feeling Strangely Fine was one of the best albums of the 90's. The fact that most people only know Semisonic for Closing Time is one of the great tragedies of modern pop music.

I agree

Absolutely A Wonderful Song, yeah it brings back a lot of memories to me, i used to hear this one time after time, i always wanted to play it, maybe i will someday. Thank´s for the remainding.

europe 99 baby andrew reynolds how we rock it

thanks for the upload
haven't heard this in awhile :)

Thanks for posting, I'm glad someone remembers this song!

I still remember 9yrs after this comment :) reminds me of great care free times in my life.