Song Description

I wrote this in response to The christmas season, but i think it can be listened to outside of that context

Lyrics

It seems you've come a long way
you say you're looking for your mind
I tell you that I've missed you
you say, "You've wasted your time"

My eyes, they're wet with wonder,
my hands they're bound by string
those songs you sang so proudly,
you tell me now were never free

So from this Christmas Turkey
I will offer you a bite
Then I'll ask you very plainly
if you're gonna stay the night


I'll sleep alone tonight
mix the pepsi with the rum
then i'll dream about my death
probably be fucking around with a loaded gun

And i'll remember christmas eve
of 1999
when I stayed up past my be time
wonderin' which gifts were mine

And i could hear my grandpa screaming
through the wwalls from the other room
his mind was starting to wander
as my parents would find our soon

He said:
"I was handsome
Now I'm Gray
Give me back
My golden days

I have lost
all my hunger
Give me back
to my manger"

The kids, they laugh so hard
pretending to smoke cigarettes
they're breath, it hangs in the air
and follows them step by step

I watch them from my window
as they carol from door to door
and I wonder how many years it'll take
till sobriety becomes abore

and when I hear my doorbell
I'll just jump up at the sound
I'll run over towards the doorway
where the children they sing so loud

They sing:
"Our saviour
was born this day
With his mother he was laid

This whole world
was cold to him.
So from a cross
he sang his hymn,

And it went like:
'O, father
Hear my tongue.
Help my brother
see what they've done

They've been blinded,
give them sight.
Bathe their bodies
in the light.'"