Christmas in Tacoma in a bar outside the city Good a place as any to go searching for the bottom The lights are all but blinding and the talk is overwhelming But I’m okay so long as I don’t feel to suddenly alone I see you standing at the ready You know I don’t deserve a friend like you The reason I drink Boilermakers is so that I don’t have to find My way back to the hotel in the driving sleet and snow I know that you won’t leave me here when I am rendered helpless I know that you’re too good a man to let me on my own Every time, it’s much the same But people rarely change, and this you know I wonder, do you find me as endearing as you used to I wonder, do you think I’m just a fool But even for a fool, I know a good thing when I have it And you know I would have nothing without you Ten years ago, I would’ve been sat up against the fireplace With presents left to wrap and children tucked into their beds But my wife, she up and left me, and I know the children hate me It’s yuletide in the city and I feel I’m almost dead So I thank you for the things you do Even though you know I won’t return them I never feel more loved than when I’m sat down on your bathroom floor My head against the wall and my bare legs on the tile You bring me jugs of water here while I am doubled over And you speak to me like I am nothing but a little child I suppose you are committed But it’s no good for you, I think you know I wonder, do you think that I am cruel or cavalier I wonder, do you think I’m using you I suppose I am, but still, I know how much it is I owe you I can’t return the nights I’ve put you through It’s quiet in the city now, except for all the cars that come And skid along the road as if they’ve never seen the snow The blinking string of lights outside your window puts me in a trance And lets me lose myself inside their warm, inviting glow Next Christmas won’t be quite so bad So long as I don’t let this moment go
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