A co-presentation of WNYC Studios and Night Fail presents.

You are listening to the orbiting song that you yourself are the singer.

As friends, family, and casual acquaintances listen,

astonished at your charismatic ability to transform our poor reality with the power of song.

The janitor has nightmares like this.

In his dream he is in a school yard filled with his

various childhood bullies all of them arranged chronologically up to his last one

Alari in this case thankfully they are not made of flesh and blood, but of paper mache.

It appears to be a New Year's Eve scene they are depicting, as evidenced by the fact that the children are all drinking champagne

which to avoid scandal is also made of paper mache. The only thing not made of paper mache is John Cameron, who is standing on a gigantic pair of stilts dressed as the baby New Year, wearing a top hat and drinking a bottle of champagne which is also not made of paper

mache. He and the police have cornered the janitor on top of the monkey bars

where the janitor stands facing them as if he were on stage.

Don't you want him to sing it?

Tell him to sing it. It's New Year's Julia and everybody wants you to sing it. There's no question what song it is that John Cameron wants the janitor to sing.

In France at this time there was only one song associated with New Years. It was a new song. It had been a tremendous hit and it was all over the radio.

But John Cameron's need to hear the song was so desperate.

He appeared to be in pain. The janitor feels bad for him.

And so, though he's afraid he's not quite right for singing this particular song, the janitor takes a deep breath, and begins to see. See.

Here are the laughs,

laugh last.

Here are the words spoke last. This old year stands again. This old year stands again. This old year stands again.

Watching the janitor's scene, John Cameron seems incredibly moved, and having already dropped his

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