Verse 1

Odile, you have made a spreadsheet for a party of eleven
Column A is snacks, column B is people's feelings
You colour-coded midnight, which I did not know was possible
And you put me down for music, which is why this song exists
Everybody's coming, everybody said yes, even the quiet one
Even the one who never comes, and I have checked it twice

Pre-Chorus

Thirty seconds, everybody find a glass
Twenty seconds, someone's phone is going off
Ten, and you are counting with your eyes shut, way too fast
Odile, you did it, look around, you did it

Chorus

Heart rate confetti, going off like light
Everybody in the kitchen and the kitchen's much too tight
You worried for a month and it's perfect, it's a mess
Heart rate confetti — happy new year, Odile, yes

Verse 2

You said you'd hate it, you said you'd cry at half eleven
You did cry, at eleven forty, in the stairwell, briefly
I found you and you laughed and said it's only the good kind
Then you went straight back in and put the wrong song on
Nobody minded, nobody has ever minded once
That is the thing about you that you have never learned

Chorus

Heart rate confetti, going off like light
Everybody in the kitchen and the kitchen's much too tight
You worried for a month and it's perfect, it's a mess
Heart rate confetti — happy new year, Odile, yes

Bridge

There is glitter in the pasta and it's fine
There is somebody asleep beneath your coats
The spreadsheet's on the fridge with everything ticked off
Except the final row, which only says: enjoy it

Final Chorus

Heart rate confetti, going off like light
Everybody in the kitchen and the kitchen's much too tight
You worried for a month and it's perfect, it's a mess
Heart rate confetti — happy new year, Odile, yes
Column C was never filled, so I have filled it in for you
It says they all came here because of you

Outro

The glasses are all wrong, the neighbours are awake
Somebody is singing something nobody can place
Happy new year, Odile — go and have a bit of cake