With apologies, perhaps, to Dan Fogelberg AND Robert Burns. I’ll save you from the Google, CAPS – Burns wrote the song that is now most closely associated with New Year’s Eve (which was not a holiday song back then) and Fogelberg wrote a contemporary song with a similar lyric. Not to go “All Len Kasper” on this last post of the year, but if you stay up past streetlights today, you’ll probably hear one of them…
Auld Lang Syne was written in the 1700’s by Burns (A Scottish poet) and loosely translates to “Times gone by.” The Fogelberg song brings it forward a few hundred years and focuses on “that old familiar pain” of lost love, regret, and mostly what “could” have been.