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I remember rows of houses, rooves strung up with lights/more than the sum of their parts shining together so bright/ornaments in trees/everything green red and gold/I could feel the spirit of the season everywhere I would go/

And while I used to see entire neighborhoods aglo/now I maybe only see every fourth house or so/

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I wanna feel it like I used to/I wanna feel the love/I want a Christmas like when I was young/

I remember rooms filled with food and family/I remember more everybody seemed happy/everybody found their way back through the cold and the snow/I felt warm, I felt safe, in my heart I felt home/

Now every event is treated like a chore, a stress, a pain/and kids have kids of their own and lives and plans pulling them away/

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And the beautiful drifts I remember shimmering brightly/are half melted piles of brown and black shoved by the roadside/

Part of me knows that the disappointment comes from remembering nostalgia more than fact/and part of me knows that I probably should try if I ever want to get that feeling back/

the good put out in turn will be the good that is returned/Christmas' meaning exactly is what you want it to be/

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from The Christmas Squirrel EP, released December 25, 2014
Written by J.J. Hameister

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