[Verse 1]
You’re setting out the plates
I’m staring at a screen
That crooked little angel
Tilting on your tree
You’re laughing in a room
I only hear in dreams
I trace your name in frost
On this midnight window seat
[Pre-Chorus]
Every carol on the radio
Sounds like us in another life
I’m counting all the miles between
Every breath
Every sigh
[Chorus]
I wish I was there with you at Christmas
On that couch in my old sweater
Holding you
Watching snow fall on the quiet houses
Every light a way back to you
If I could trade this distance for your doorstep
I’d walk barefoot through the cold and never move
I wish I was there with you at Christmas
Wish my arms were the wrapping around you
[Verse 2]
You’ll pour that cheap red wine
Into Mom’s chipped glass
You’ll save my favorite seat
Like the year before last
You’ll tell them I’m “doing fine”
With that half-believing laugh
I’ll warm my hands on coffee
Trying not to call you back
[Pre-Chorus]
Every photo in my trembling hands
Is a doorway I can’t reach
I mouth the words to grace alone
Your name under my teeth
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] If I could fold this map
Turn oceans into streets
I’d follow every star
Till your front porch found me
[building softly]
Leave my bags outside
Let my heart walk in
Kiss December from your lips
Start again
Start again
[Chorus]