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Come Home With Me
03:18
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Come Home With Me
I know I said my father rambles
My mom will light menorah candles
My brother doesn’t much like swearing
He’ll want to touch shoes you’re wearing
Their Shih Zu Molly has grown senile
Mostly she lays out on the green tiles
Sometimes she gets a little drooly
She always poops in the jacuzzi
Maybe you’re questioning my sanity
Why would I have you meet my family
I need to know you/ in all the ways
Come home with me for the holidays
I’m pretty sure it won’t be that hard
Maybe we’ll walk around the back yard
See where my grandma Anna’s buried
She always really loved to scare me
Aunt June will dance all free and flighty
Take off her clothes and show her nightie
Don’t look directly into her eyes
Or you’ll be in for a surprise
Maybe you’re questioning my sanity
Why would I have you meet my family
I need to know you/ in all the ways
Come home with me for the holidays
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How it Feels
04:17
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How it Feels
The new neighbors turn their lights out
So early
I think one of them’s a baker
Works across the river at the deli
Blinking lights on all the houses
I can almost see the bridge
I’ve been napping through the mornings
Somehow I can’t leave the bed
I’ll never get used to how it feels
This feeling of not having you here
Will I always be this wrecked
Staggering in the effects
Can’t believe it’s almost Christmas
And Winter
Everything feels heavy when you’re weakened
But I won’t let myself turn bitter
Some days it seems I’ve grown transparent
Even with people we both knew
I’ve been wishing for an avalanche
Something I can burrow through
I’ll never get used to how it feels
This feeling of not having you here
Will I always be this wrecked
Staggering in the effects
Seems like there’s somebody
For everyone but me
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3. |
Christmas Party Blues
04:06
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Christmas Party Blues
Sorry you had to leave so fast
I wanted to show you the bruises I've amassed
and the scars from climbing trees
They're not to be believed
Funny I didn't catch your name
Even as I drove you insane
You left your coat on the bed
And wore someone else's instead
You might have been my parachute
We could've split these atoms in two
Found a cure for some disease
But I guess you had to leave
Mistletoe hanging above my head
The way you chose to misdirect
The egg nog sitting left undrunk
The presents freezing in your trunk
Sorry my stories run so thick
And this accent that I still speak with
My mother says my tongue's aflame
I'm telling you I’m sorry just the same
You might have been my parachute
We could've split this atom in two
Found a cure for some disease
But I guess you had to leave
You could've filled my sails with air
Run your fingers through my hair
Maybe we’d make a new Einstein
I guess some other time
I don’t know what to do with these Christmas party bluesI don’t know what to do with these Christmas party blues
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The Winter Hearth (Cursed on Earth)
When the air bites the nose
The sun’s barely out
Leaves haves since fallen
Snow falls on them now
Blow the dust off the chest
And pull the down coats out
It’s the season of the bundle up
And when you come to town
String lights lit up
It’s like a beacon this house
Light spills in through the window
And I’m still around
Don’t spend your life’s savings
Don’t drag in a tree
Don’t buy me the latest thing
It’s not what it means
The gift of your presence
Is all that I need
Morning sunshine
I must have slept through the night
Why didn’t you wake me
But there’s no reply
There’s no coat on the chair
Candles burn themselves out
Footprints on the hardwood floor
And no tracks out on the ground
I rush through the snow
No calls on the phone
And though I sit here by the crackling fire
There’s no warmth in this home
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Christmas Lights
01:50
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Christmas Lights
Rosie I’m not crazy
I left Ohio as a baby
And all those downtown Christmas lights
Make me feel all right
I’m not going anywhere tonight
Mercy we’re not cursed see
Lately I’ve started to feel worthy
(Maybe I’ve grown a little thirsty)
And these dirty streets are crying
Hungry as a lion
Rosie don’t worry we’ll be fine
Put on some apple cider throw in cinnamon
I’ll grab my dad’s guitar you your violin
We’ll play those old-time songs sing ‘em so sincere
Maybe these thoughts will disappear
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6. |
Low Lingering Light
04:18
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Low Lingering Light
God damn it’s cold outside and these walls are wicked thin
There was a time I thought I knew what I was doing
Laying in the living room listening to the plows
Just last year you were here in this house
Low lingering light short syrupy days
I want to set this world ablaze
We sang Fairy Tale of New York in our bed
“This year’s for me and you” you said
There’s the steady dripping from the leaky kitchen faucet
And the box of ornaments you bought still in the closet
I do my best to try and lean into forgiveness
Maybe all my tears will turn to snow this Christmas
Low lingering light short syrupy days
I want to set this world ablaze
We sang Fairy Tale of New York in our bed
“This year’s for me and you” you said
All those years I went without a Christmas tree
My family really did a number on me
Somehow you made me see the holidays anew
How will I ever get through/ I’m worried I won’t get through
Most of my days are spent alone here in this home
All of these moving parts are rusting to my bones
Sometimes I wonder if you’ll ever even call
I know that nothing’s every anybody’s fault/ feeling small
Low lingering light short syrupy days
I want to set this world ablaze
We sang Fairy Tale of New York in our bed
“This year’s for me and you” you said
“This year’s for me and you” you said
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True Enough
03:45
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True Enough
Snow outside listless like a lazy dream
Feels like I’m in a submarine
Cutting up the squash to make a pot of soup
Always reminds me of you
You said I was never strong enough
I don’t think it’s true but it’s true enough
Looking at the index card your recipe
Reading somehow like an elegy
I remember watching as you wrote it out
In the kitchen of our house
You said I was never kind enough
I don’t think it’s true but it’s true enough
Wind whistling through the window
Cars disappearing in the snow
Paths we trampled through forest
Now you’re spending Christmas out west
Before you went back to the North West
Slicing the garlic with a razor blade
Thinking of meals that we made
Wishing somehow we could begin again
I cut into my skin
You said I was never tough enough
I don’t think it’s true but it’s true enough
You said I was never kind enough
I don’t think it’s true but it’s true enough
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Don’t Go Before Christmas
Thought I heard you crying
In the dark last night
Someone said you’re dying
Something’s not right
I’ll be here for anything you need
Everyone will help fight this disease
I know I know I know
It’s not my business
Don’t go don’t go don’t go
Before Christmas
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Christmas Alone
You sleep the whole drive When you wake up we’re home
And I hold you in both arms to me Under my coat
It’s the same coming back As it is every year
But somehow the house I grew up in Feels brand new just having you here
Snow angels in the garden Even without the snow
You made the impossible possible How could I know it’d get this cold
I want the same thing now that I did back then
Want it to go on forever never end
I wanna give you something you won’t wanna give away
I wanna be home us together just today
You didn’t feel gone ‘til this Christmas alone
No one to keep warm No one to kiss under mistletoe
Cause you’re miles away now Maybe you always were
But I think of you sometimes Like when I hear songs about peace on earth
I want the same thing now that I did back then
Want it to go on forever never end
I wanna give you something you won’t wanna give away
I wanna be home us together just today
I wanna be home us together on Christmas day
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10. |
Anonymous Christmas
03:50
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11. |
Winter Rain
01:17
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Winter Rain
Woke up to a winter
Rain on Christmas
Couldn’t get myself
Back to sleep
Outside the snow has
Started melting
Now I’m worried
I might lose my heat
I’ve got some presents
To open
Still it’s not the Christmas
I was hoping for
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burst & bloom records Maine
Burst & Bloom is a small, independent record label and book publisher based in Kittery and Bath, ME.
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