Tim Minchin - What Was '06 For? lyrics

What was 06 for?
What defines it as a special one?
Was it particularly long?
Was it especially fun?

What was 06 for?
Did it treat us any differently?
Were the things that happened really
All that extraordinary?

This year was just like any other year
The war was just the same old silly war
Like beer just tastes like any other beer
It's the same as the last
Year and the year before so let's move on
You can't lament these fickle days
Just close your eyes and drink champagne
And toss this washed-up year away

A year is like a library book
It's only as a loan
It's just another year flown
It's just another year blown

What was 06 for?
Let's look at it realistically
Its only asset's recency
What did it actually mean to me?

I guess I had a pretty good year
I bought a leather sofa
Which was a dream of mine
And it only cost 400 quid
It's amazing all the savings
You can make online

I've been sticking to low-glycemic foods
With the aim of trying to stay in shape
And it's also been good for my moods
So I don't snap at my
Wife when she's running late

These things may seem petty on a global scale
I could live in Lebanon or Pakistan
But recently I had to do a tour in Wales
So suffering is something that I understand
And any New Year's guilt any empathy we feel
Will be neatly overcome
With a shandy and a meal

If there's one thing we can count on
It's our comforting amnesia
06 was bloody Africa 05 was Indonesia

But the tsunami of immediacy
Washes away the flood of grief
And reveals a layer of naive
Optimism underneath

So let's move on
You can't lament these fickle days
Just close your eyes and drink champagne
And toss this washed-up year away

A year is like a guinea pig
It's cuter when it's gone
It's just another year flown
It's just another year blown

And there'll always be another
But not for my grandmother
For her, there won't be any more
For 06 was the last year for my nana

What was 06 for?
Is it time we all just moved along?
So, my paternal granny's gone -
I've still got another one

What was 06 for?
Is it just another year flown?
Is it just the blown?
You turn your back and the damn thing's gone
Time flies when you're having fun

So let's move on
You can't lament these fickle days
Just close your eyes and drink champagne
And toss this washed-up year away

A year is like an elephant
You're not allowed to take one home
It's just another year flown
It's just another year blown

A year is like virginity
You only miss it once it's gone
It's just another year flown
It's just another year blown

Should all of us be getting gone?
Should all of you be heading home?