Lyrics
[Verse]
Downtown they hung that crooked wreath on the feed-store door again
I stand by the Coke machine, hands in my pockets, pretending I’m just killing time
A girl in a red coat laughs into somebody’s chest and fogs up his glasses
The bell on the charity bucket keeps ringing like it’s calling names, but mine doesn’t come
[Verse 2]
There’s a plastic reindeer half lit in the neighbor’s frozen yard
One antler works, the other just blinks and quits and tries again
Feels about right for the way my heart flickers when I hear carols from the next trailer over
A kid’s voice goes sharp on the high note and his mama laughs, and the sound leaks through my thin walls
[Chorus]
Everybody’s got someone to lean into the wind with, or it sure looks that way from here
Two shadows in every window, four boots by every door, matching coffee mugs on every counter
I heat up a TV dinner and eat it with the lights off, watching my breath in my own kitchen
Some folks say being alone is freedom
Tonight it just feels like the same old empty plate at the end of the table
[Verse 3]
At Walmart they’ve stacked tin cookies in towers higher than a man’s shoulder
I walk slow past the ornaments, pick up one that says “Our First Christmas” and set it back down too fast
The clerk wishes me happy holidays without looking up, her scanner beeping like a flat line
Out in the parking lot, a couple argues soft about a tree that’s too big for their trunk
Then they kiss like it doesn’t matter if the back window has to ride open all the way home
[Chorus]
Everybody’s got someone to argue about nothing with and then make up under cheap string lights
They’ve got someone to bump hips with at the sink while the gravy cools
Someone to fall asleep on the couch halfway through the movie, hand still warm on a leg
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Style
slowrawcountryand a weary slide guitar that only answers at the ends of lines; keep the arrangement mostly open and hushedletting small details and silence carry the weight; add soft organ pads in the last chorus for a lowsparse acoustic ballad with male vocals; close-mic vocalchurchlike swellmale vocalsbrushed snareupright bass
Prompt
A non-rhyming country song about being single during the holidays, wishing you had someone to share the holidays with, watching couples during the holidays, heartache, male singer, raw
Credits
Prompt by
Brian
BrianGeneratedNov 18, 2025
ModelAria v5
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