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Strings of lights above the bed
Curtains drawn and a glass of red
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
Saxophone on the radio
Recorded 40 years ago
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
When you play my song
Play it slowly
Play it like I'm sad and lonely
Maybe you can solve
Solve my mystery
Wrap me in your arms and whisper
You miss me
Weatherman says it's miserable
But the snow is so beautiful
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
It would take a miracle
To get me out to a shopping mall
All I really want for Christmas is you
Let them ring the bells
They won't miss us
I'll be drinkin' down your kisses
Deep into the night
We'll go stealing
Underneath a starry ceiling
Revealing
White lights on the Christmas tree
Thank God you are here with me
All I ever get for Christmas is blue
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So it's been a long year
Every new day brings one more tear
Till there's nothing left to cry
My, my how time flies
Like little children hiding their eyes
We'll make it disappear
Let's start a brand new year
Darlin' Christmas is coming
Salvation army bells are ringing
Darlin' Christmas is coming
Do you believe in angels singing
Darlin' the snow is falling
Falling like forgiveness from the sky
If I could have anything
What would I want this new year to bring
Well, I'd want you here with me
Tear these thorns from my heart
Help the healing to start
Let's set this old world free
Let's start with you and me
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Bring me a white horse for Christmas
We'll ride him through the town
Out into the snowy woods
Where we will both lie down
Underneath white birches
Our faces toward the sky
We will make snow angels
With our white horse standing by
Hush now baby
One day we're gonna ride
Hush now baby
Our white horse through the sky
Bring me a white horse for Christmas
We'll ride him through the snow
All the way to Bethlehem
2000 years ago
I wanna speak with the angel
Who said do not be afraid
I wanna kneel where the oxen knelt
Where the little child was laid
Hush now baby
One day you're gonna ride
Hush now baby
Your white horse through the sky
No bridle will he be wearing
His unshod hoofs they will fly
Keep a watch out this Christmas
For that white horse in the sky
Hush now baby
One day we're gonna ride
Hush now baby
Our white horse through the sky
Hush now baby
Let every angel sing
Hush now baby
One day we'll ride again
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O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy dark and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
The lamplit streets of Bethlehem
We walk now through the night
There is no peace in Bethlehem
There is no peace in sight
The wounds of generations
Almost too deep to heal
Scar the timeworn miracle
And make it seem surreal
The baby in the manger
Grew to a man one day
And still we try to listen now
To what he had to say
Put up your swords forever
Forgive your enemies
Love your neighbor as yourself
Let your little children come to me
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Lord we need a new redemption song
Lord we've tried
It just seems to come out wrong
Won't you help us please
Help us just to sing along
A new redemption song
Lord we need
A new redemption day
All our worries
Keep getting in the way
Won't you help us please
Help us find the words to pray
To bring redemption day
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When you come home
And all the world's asleep
I'll close my eyes
And breathe with sweet relief
This world has had you
Long enough for now
And when I get you home
I'll show you how
I wanna get snowed in with you
I wanna shake off these winter blues
These ain't no blues that I can use
And when the lights are gleaming
I'll be leaning into you
What's a girl to do?
I wanna get snowed in with you
I'm gonna make every effort to
Be so good to you
That when the snow melts away
You'll want to stay
Snowed in with me
Till it's time to take down the tree
And it's all I really need baby
To be alone awhile with you
What's a girl to do?
Drift with me
While we're still awake
Every new snowflake
Is like a wish we make
Dream with me
Leave your cares far behind
Is all love snowblind?
Let me awake in time to find
That I'm snowed in with you
I'm gonna make every effort to
Be so good to you
That when the snow melts away
You'll want to stay
Snowed in with me
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North Pole man
Come in from the cold
North Pole man
It's gettin' old
Cold hands cold feet
Darn snow darn sleet
It takes good friction
To make good heat
North Pole man
Come out of the storm
North Pole man
Gotta get you warm
Hot rum steam heat
My lips taste sweet
I got warm cookin'
Spread the table take a seat
Northpole man
Can you afford to
You outta come here
Come south of the border
Come down real slow
It's warm down below
It takes perspiration
To melt the snow
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I cried when I wrote this
I'll always remember
The worst kind of lonely
Is alone in December
The act of forgiveness
Is always a mystery
The melting of ice
And the future of history
Some call it obsession
I call it commitment
I make my confession
I make it in public
I hope that it's helpful
That others can use it
That it's more than my ego
And my need to abuse it
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
And here it is
The leaves on the oak tree
Hold on through the winter
They're brown and their brittle
They clatter together
I can't seem to let go
I'm so scared of losing
The deeper the love goes
The deeper the bruising
The trouble with talking
Is it makes you sound clever
The trouble with waiting
Is you'll just wait forever
There's a loop of excuses
That plays in your mind
And makes the truth
Even harder to find
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
And here it is
When they blow Gabriel's horn
Rip fiction from fact
I want to get caught
In some radical act
Of love and redemption
The sound of warm laughter
Some true conversation
With a friend or my lover
Somewhere down the road
We'll lift up our glass
And toast the moment
And moments past
The heartbreak and laughter
The joy and the tears
The scary beauty
Of what's right here
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
I'm wrappin' up my love this Christmas
And here it is
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Now you look dashing in the snow in your one horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go, laughing all the way
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle through the night
Bells on bob tails ring, making spirits bright
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle through the night
Oh, through the night
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Once upon a winter
It seems so long ago
My one and only love and I
Fell down upon the snow
And as the dusk was falling
From our gray and goose down sky
We heard the old cathedral bells
Ring out our lullaby
Snow angel, snow angel
Someday I'm gonna fly
This cold and broken heart of mine
Will one day wave goodbye
Goodbye to this cruel wicked world
And all the tears I've cried
Snow angel, snow angel
I'll meet you in the sky
The rumors of a distant war
Called my true love's name
He packed his leather suitcase
And spoke no word of blame
We walked awhile together
I tried to hide my fear
He told me not to be afraid
And whispered in my ear
Snow angel, snow angel
Someday I'm gonna fly
This cold and broken heart of mine
Will one day wave goodbye
Goodbye to this cruel wicked world
And all the tears I've cried
Snow angel, snow angel
I'll meet you in the sky
They brought my love home from the war
In a cart pulled by white mules
The Christmas bells rang out that day
Oblivious as fools
And as the snow began to fall
I kissed his frozen face
They told me in his woolen coat
His last few words were placed
Snow angel, snow angel
Someday I'm gonna fly
This cold and broken heart of mine
Will one day wave goodbye
Goodbye to this cruel wicked world
And all the tears I've cried
Snow angel, snow angel
I'll meet you in the sky
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You take your own sweet time
Order us a glass of wine
And wink at all the rich folks in the room
We're gonna pull through
We've been careful, we've been good
Doing most of the things we should
But the picture is much bigger than we knew
We're gonna pull through
There's no such thing as cool
And we're gonna pull through
I'd rather feel your heat
On a wicked winter day
Than watch a holiday parade
With dancers and balloons
We're gonna pull through
You hold me just the same way
Levon would play
And The Weight is my favorite song
We're gonna pull through
Breaking our own rules
We're gonna pull through
Maybe, sorta, kinda
If I really had to say
Something good is on its way
And we're gonna pull through
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