Leonard's Bar (Aft. L. Cohen)

These over-priced drinks are awful But the band is happening We love this old dive in our neighbourhood As the summer comes to an end Then, nothing happens until New Year's Eve When it's really hopping Where lovers break up at the ring of midnight And the loners drink to another year over As the new one doesn't give any hope for redemption Landing in each other's beds with wicked hangovers And can't remember what time When they jumped into bed--or with who? And then, go to the diner around the corner for a cure all While heading home in the wintry streets Of this old neighbourhood The sun shines brightly behind the clouds And new year begins