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Christmas Day

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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There must be a thousand songs on the trope of “the guy who can’t commit and lives to regret it.” There’s a reason for that, though – it’s a theme with real emotional power around sadness, lost opportunities, late-breaking awareness, and the fact that time moves only in one direction. This is my attempt to visit that storyline in a way that (I hope) is emotionally authentic.

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Christmas Day

With her friends there to stay for Christmas day, she couldn’t talk too long
But that was okay, he had nothing to say, they both knew what went wrong
She lost her faith when he lost his nerve and couldn’t pull the switch
The road was straight but he took a curve and wound up in a ditch

And it all went away on Christmas day
The snow from the north wouldn’t lift
What can you say on Christmas day
When you give back the very best gift?

He saw her through the days that grew too long, too sad, too grim
And they both knew when his time came too, she’d do the same for him
The sea was clear and the autumn air smelled sweet from their hillside bed
In a hundred ways in the nights and days there was nothing left unsaid

But it all went away on Christmas day
He stood in the snowfall, adrift
What can you say on Christmas day
When you give back the very best gift?

Some people say that Christmas day is the day of the world’s rebirth
If I had my way on Christmas day love would reign on heaven and earth

He looks at the sky, wondering why it’s so hard to take that leap
And he hates his ways and the length of days and the nights that bring no sleep
She gets up each day a little further away, moving on, moving on
She gave him the chance to dance that dance, but when it’s gone, it’s gone

And it all went away on Christmas day
The snow from the north wouldn’t lift
What can you say on Christmas day
When you give back the very best gift?

Some people say that Christmas day is the day when love comes true
If I had my way on Christmas day I would spend a little time with you

But it all went away on Christmas day
With the snow from the north in his heart
What can you say on Christmas day
When you tear your own world apart?
When you tear your own world apart?
When you tear your own world apart?

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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