[Verse]
Cold air bites
Streets are bare
No jingle bells
Just blank stares
Lights dangle
Half burned-out
What’s the cheer they talk about
[Chorus]
Hollow lights of December
Nothing bright to remember
I’m stuck in the gray
Hollow lights of December
Promises splinter
Surrender
Another year slips away
[Verse 2]
Tinsel draped like broken chains
Window frost
It spells my name
Silent nights
No angels sing
Empty boxes
No gold rings
[Prechorus]
Is this joy or is this pain
Does it matter—it’s all the same
[Chorus]
Hollow lights of December
Nothing bright to remember
I’m stuck in the gray
Hollow lights of December
Promises splinter
Surrender
Another year slips away
[Bridge]
The snow falls
Slow and cruel
Covers dreams
Buries fools
Fireplace flickers
Weak and cold
Stories untold
Stories too old