The New Life - The Waterboys

I’ve burned my bridges

And I’m free at last

All my chains are in the past

The new life starts here

The day is wide open

The sky is blue

The world is a miracle

And so are you

The new life starts here

My papers arrived

Stamped and complete

All previous dispatches are obsolete

The new life starts here

I can see my way so clear

Rejoice for

The new life starts here

There’s a war in the gulf

But it ain’t in my head

I just declared a state of peace instead

The new life starts here

Tempters and tricksters

Banging at my door

I’m not fighting with them anymore

The new life starts here

Users, abusers

Banging at my door

I’m not fighting with them anymore

The new life starts here

Generals, presidents

How do you do?

I can make it with or without you

The new life starts here

I can see my way so clear

Rejoice for

The new life starts here

Are you under the mercy?

Are you under attack?

Are you going forward?

Are you going back?

The new life starts here

Are you coming to grips?

Are you coming apart?

Are you listening to fear?

Or to your heart?

The new life starts here

Citizen, criminal, child, woman or man

The keys to the kingdom

Are in your own hands

The new life starts here

Mock the devil

Make him sweat

He hasn’t won the battle yet

The new life starts here

A whole new age in seven more years

Rejoice for

The new life starts here