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chestnuts roasting on an open fire
jack frost nipping on your nose
yuletide carols being sung by a choir
and folks dressed up like eskimos
everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
can help to make the season bright
tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
will find it hard to sleep tonight
they know that santa's on his way
he's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
and every mother's child is going to spy
to see if reindeer really know how to fly
and so i'm offering this simple phrase
to kids from one to ninety-two
although its been said many times, many ways
a very merry christmas to you
he walks along
singing his fairy song
picking up magic
that grows at his feet
she says the same
her peculiar way
dreaming good fortune
on everyone’s street
say, hey, have you heard
blue whiskey’s the rage
i’ll send you a jug
in the morning
it is absurd
to live in a cage
you know there’s got to be
something better
as they go by
don’t look with eagle’s eyes
smile on your jailers
until they grow weak
nothing can compare
to something that’s almost there
to tear up the madness
that all of us seek
say, hey, have you heard
blue whiskey’s the rage
i’ll send you a jug
in the morning
it is absurd
to live in a cage
you know there’s got to be
something better
i tell you how i feel, but you don't care
i say tell me the truth, but you don't dare
you say love is a hell you cannot bare
and i say, give mine back
and then go there for all i care
i got my feet on the ground
and i dont go to sleep to dream
you got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body, and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around
i got my own hell to raise
i have never been so insulted
in all my life
i could swallow the seas
to wash down all this pride
first you run like a fool
just to be at my side
and now you run like a fool
but you just run to hide
and i can't abide
don't make it a big deal
don't be so sensitive
we're not playing a game anymore
you don't have to be so defensive
don't you plead me your case
don't bother to explain
don't even show me your face
cuz it's a crying shame
just go back to the rock
from under which you came
take the sorrow you gave
and all the stakes you claimed
and don't forget the blame
i got my feet on the ground
and i don't go to sleep to dream
you got your head in the clouds
and you're not at all what you seem
this mind, this body, and this voice
cannot be stifled by your deviant ways
so don't forget what i told you
don't come around
i got my own hell to raise
you'll never see the courage i know
its colors' richness won't appear within your view
i'll never glow the way that you glow
your presence dominates the judgements made on you
but as the scenery grows i see in different lights
the shades and shadows undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch i see from greater heights
i understand what i am still to proud to mention, to you
you'll say you understand
but you don't understand
you'll say you'll never give up seeing eye to eye
but never is a promise and you can't afford to lie
you'll never touch these things that i hold
the skin of my emotions lies beneath my own
you'll never feel the heat of this soul
my fever burns me deeper than i've ever shown to you
you'll say "don't fear your dreams"
it's easier than it seems
you'll say you'd never let me fall from hopes so high
but never is a promise and you can't afford to lie
you'll never live this life that i live
i'll never live the life that wakes me in the night
you'll never hear the message i give
you'll say it looks as though i might give up this fight
but as the scenery grows i see in different lights
the shades and shadows undulate in my perception
my feelings swell and stretch i see from greater heights
i realize what i am now too smart to mention, to you
you'll say you understand
you'll never understand
i'll say i'll never wake up knowing how or why
i don't know what to believe in
you don't know who i am
you'll say i need appeasing when i start to cry
but never is a promise and i'll never need a lie
chestnuts roasting on an open fire
