Jim White Christmas Day Lyrics

Christmas Day Lyrics

Where in the world did you come from my dear?

Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here? I bought this ticket to
Mobile, but I been stranded all day...p.a. said the bus broke down ten miles
away from the station.

So seldom a door...so seldom a key...so seldom a lock like the love between you
and me. But seldom comes happiness without the pain of the devil in the details
since I saw the smile on your face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on
Christmas Day...in 1998.

The burden of love is the fuel of bad grammar.

You stutter and stammer--what a bitch to convey the crux of the matter, when
the words you must utter are hopelessly tangled in the memories and scars you
show no one. So seldom a door...so seldom a key...so seldom a hit like the hurt
you put on me.

But seldom comes happiness without the pain of the devil in the details since I
saw the smile on your face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas
Day...in 1998. I remember quite clearly, a bad Muzak version of James Taylor's
big hit, called "Fire and Rain" was playing as you crouched down and
tearfully kissed me, and I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold
from this terrible pain." So seldom a door...so seldom a key...so seldom a
gift like the gift you gave me. But seldom comes happiness without the pain of
the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your face as I was crying in
a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998. Amazing grace, how sweet the
smile upon the face I never thought I'd see you again...especially here in this
Greyhound station...on Christmas Day...in 1998