Yes I do want to believe that I will have a good holiday this year. I do want to believe that as I watch my niece open her presents I wont have to leave the room to sob silently in the bathroom. I want to believe…
I love Christmas music. And there is only a short window in which I can listen to it (day after Thanksgiving til Christmas). Every year I re-burn a Christmas compilation switching out a few songs or just rearranging my favorites but this year I’m missing last years disc. That means the new songs I added last year are lost (no I didn’t back it up on my computer. So today I went on a search today for Sometimes you have to work on Christmas (Sometimes) by Harvey Danger (stupid itunes doesn’t have it). It’s really the only lost song that I HAVE to have on this years disc. I found it FINALLY (don’t even want to think how long I was looking and how many stores I visited) and on the same cd is the following song, which is definitely going to be on this years compilation.
This holiday – Late Tuesday
The icicles forming around the edge of your house
Compliment how you feel this time of your
When so much of the world’s caught up in frivolous joy
The rest and you can’t wait for it to end
Oh but this holiday you will laugh and not cry
I don’t know the reason why, but I know it
And your seasonal sadness you’ll release from your hold
For I know that you want to believe
I know the decorative lights hold no more magic for you
And the beauty of snow reminds you you’re alone
Somewhere in the night you hear some children singing
A touch of loveliness in the pain of remembering
Oh but this holiday you will laugh and not cry
I don’t know the reason why, but I know it
And your seasonal walls you will let tumble down
For I know that you want to believe
Friends they will call and remember you
Smiles you’ll realize are for you
And your eyes waking up to the life and the love
That is ready and waiting to be renewed
Oh but this holiday you will laugh and not cry
I don’t know the reason why, but I know it
And the hope that you seek will find its way to you
For I know that you want to believe
