Lyrics

Damn Long Time

I?ts Christmastime
It?s Christmastime
And I can hear you running up
Grandma?s front porch
It?s 1966 and it?s
Christmastime
We?re laughing and we?re screaming
And the snow is coming down

I don?t think anybody laughed with me
Quite the way you did
I don?t think anybody ever loved me
Quite the way you did
You were my cousin, You were nine
I was five years old
You were the big one I was the little one
We were wild and bold

Something happened way back then, terrible things
Tore our family apart, they were terrible things
Your father disappeared with you one day
We never got to say goodbye
My mother went north to chase a purple haze
My father went south his mind in a craze
And I was left on Grandma?s porch with a baby brother to raise

I was five and you were nine
I missed you for a damn long time
I missed you for a damn long time
I missed you til I couldn?t cry

I don?t think anybody laughed with me
Quite the way you did
I don?t think anybody ever loved me
Quite the way you did
I was five and you were nine
I missed you for a damn long time
I missed you til I couldn?t cry
Thirty six years later I got a letter
It was Christmas time
He remembered me
Did I remember him
Could he visit some time

Something was reborn at Christmastime
Rose up from his letter and it was mine
Tears came back
My heart healed over a terrible crack
And I don?t think anybody laughs with me
Quite the way he does
I don?t think anybody really loves me
Quite the way he does
He?s still the big one
I?m still the little one
We?re still wild and bold
Copyright © 2003 Sarri Gilman