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dear jolly sir
04:04
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Dear jolly sir im picturing who sits big in the sky
Know the season’s done good greeting me, the winter’s been just fine
There’s just a couple unlearned lessons and their presences are weighing on my mind
Dear sir since you’re interested I’ve always been this way
Been a pretty fitful sleeper and I’m just as bad awake
I’ve got a couple feelings eating me and leading me to wonder what you’d say
Santa tell me, do your feet get sore?
Though you live forever, does life ever get bored?
When you were just a baby did you know that this was what you’re training for?
And you’d say “Don’t be so small minded, even I’ve been 23 before.”
Dear sir frigid temperatures can only do you harm
Hope you taking your vacation days and going somewhere warm
Hope you’re finding small reminders of the reasons that you’re being Santa for
And Santa tell me do you still have doubts?
Do you still get nervous entering each house?
Do you sometimes wonder if you’re understood or still wanted around?
You’d say i’m only human, i’d be stupid not to wonder that by now
Father of all fathers, in the name of Coca Cola,
Show me everything I’m waiting for I’m too afraid to want
Help my mother to retire, help my father keep his health
Show me all my dark desires thatIve been hiding from myself
And send kisses to the misses and the elves
Santa tell me have I been naive to watch my chimney every Christmas Eve?
Knowing once I find you that the best that you can do is up and leave
Knowing even if youre listening that the christmassing has gotta come from me
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snow song
02:38
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The snow is still falling, i see from the streetlamp
No footsteps will ruin this nice winter evening
And i never needed to talk to the neighbors
But seeing their rooftops, i wonder if they feel the same
The kids in their snowpants will follow tradition
Make weapons and angels and cold ammunition
The big tree is heavy, he's wintered and tired
He looks in my window and wondering if i feel the same
Wintertime will always get you down if you let it
Salted and frozen ground, but
This year i see perfect portraits in my town, i don't get it
I don't care how this sounds, cause
Everything is picture perfect now
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next year
03:19
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My mother's telling the story that she always tells
Just like i remember, she sparkles like a dinner bell
And we both outlive the fire in the fireplace
She's so beautiful that I think about outliving her
And starting in the little ways
And my father's in the kitchen making something weird
And he beats us to it before we can make fun of him
And he swears i look just like someone i've never met
And each year i age, i'll looking like someone different
And I'm starting to remember that
And the wrapping paper is empty like a toilet roll
And now Dad's complaining that no one carols anymore
And i didn't get it, the feeling that I thought I'd feel
But i'll think it out and I'll write it down, i'll forget about it
There's always next year
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christmas don't be late
01:36
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Christmas, Christmastime is near
Time for toys and time for cheer
We've been good, but we can't last
Hurry Christmas, hurry fast
Want a plane that loops the loop
Me, I want a hula-hoop
We can hardly stand the wait
Please, Christmas, don't be late
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ducksmithson
ducksmithson AKA jude makes DIY folkish, singer-songwriterish music from the midwesternish part of america. you can find them @ducksmithson on instagram and tiktok.
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