The Day After Christmas

	  		
Intro: 
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I'm thinking of when I first touched you 
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    Your skin was electric 
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Now I'm far too wise to dwell on such things 
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And far too sentimental to forget them 


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I read somewhere memories are 
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    stories you write for yourself 
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To explain who you are, and how you got there 
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And to blame it on somebody else 


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Now the gifts are open 
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    The toys are broken 
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    The speeches are all spoken 
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And the dishes cleared away 
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The stream keeps flowing 
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    My doubts are growing 
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    'Cause I've got no way of knowing 
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if it'll dam or reach the sea 

For you and me 


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I met a man twice my age 
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Half joking, he said 'I should warn you. 
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You're a fish on the line, and the line's pulling in, 
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and there's a frying pan coming to warm you.' 
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And while I smiled, it occurred to me 
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    I'm just gristle and blood 
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And I've spent half my life with the sun in my eyes 
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Chasing rainbows through the mud 


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Now the gifts are open 
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    The toys are broken 
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    The speeches are all spoken 
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And the dishes cleared away 
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The stream keeps flowing 
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    My doubts are growing 
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    'Cause I've got no way of knowing 
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if it'll dam or reach the sea 

For you and me 


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When I was a child in a little kid's world 
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    My heart was the same 
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as the one I have now But it amazes me how 
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much everything else has changed 

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