Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas

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Home is where beds are made and butter is added to toast
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On a cold afternoon you can float room to room like a ghost
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Take the creche out and argue about who gets to set up the kings
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And I know that it is home because that is where the stereo sings
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I have got dreams, dreams to remember
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But not even home will be with you forever

[Verse 2]

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It's Christmas time and the plane flies me over white hills
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To a town in a dream where the sky, it is frozen and still
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And a room that is not mine but it is just like I left it before
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With the wax from the candles all dusty and locks on the door
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Where I held you so tenderly
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And where in summer I opened your letter to me

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Now I am standing where we knee-led and a miracle mile now borders it
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But if I turn my face to the field I do not even notice it for a second

[Verse 3]

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There is a tangle of greenery where winter scenery ends
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And I hear that song sometimes and imagine us much more than friends
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Like if we stayed in this town, bought the first house that went up on sale
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And how each Christmastime would bring in-laws and snow days and holiday mail
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Your dad says you are living in Georgia since last September
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Yeah well I have got dreams, dreams to remember, I have got dreams, dreams to remember
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I have got dreams, dreams to remember, I have got dreams, dreams to remember
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Oh Sara, come back to New Hampshire we'll stay there forever