The Day After Christmas

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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