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This song really speaks to desperation for connection in relationships. The relationship is experiencing a love drought. The speaker is calling for rain, essentially saying “for you, I’d do anything, I’d even change who I am because I know that you are what I want. This is what I want.” Although the relationship feels like it’s ending, maybe we could try one last time to change the weather.

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The Ghost of Christmas Present

Intro
(icy synth pad, slow piano, distant bells)


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Verse 1
The city’s dressed up pretty,
red ribbons, fake snow
They’re singing songs about coming home
I locked that door years ago

I watch the faces passing by
looking warm, looking sure
Trying to find the one expression
that doesn’t believe anymore


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Pre-Chorus
I don’t need the ghost of Christmas Past
I made peace with those mistakes
I’m scared of the one standing right here
The quiet ache the tinsel can’t break


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Hook
Oh, the Ghost of Christmas Present
He sits at the table I set for two
He doesn’t say a word
Just shows me everything I’m not

A bitter, beautiful truth


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Verse 2
I opened the one card that mattered
It was empty, signed “Anyone who cares”
I pour two glasses of cheap wine
One for me, one for the empty chair

I’m starting to like this silence
More than the stories you tell
At least it doesn’t promise heaven
Just delivers what’s real


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Pre-Chorus
I don’t miss the way it was before
Or the lies we used to dress
I’m afraid of the life I’m living
Wrapped in lights, feeling less


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Hook
Oh, the Ghost of Christmas Present
He sits at the table I set for two
He doesn’t say a word
Just shows me everything I’m not

A bitter, beautiful truth


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Bridge
(beat drops, minimal drone, reverbed piano)

Tell me, what’s the point of waiting for a miracle
When you already know the ending?

(spoken, close whisper, almost breaking the fourth wall)
It’s all here.
Right now.
The perfect, polished loneliness.


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Final Hook
Oh, the Ghost of Christmas Present
Still sitting at the table for two
He doesn’t say a word
Just shows me everything I’m not

A bitter, beautiful truth
A bitter, beautiful truth


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Outro
(pads fade, detuned chime)

…The quiet ache.

The Ghost of Christmas Present

The first single from our new album, 'Hide your way', out 26th August 2016 on Soundway Records - buy the album here: https://www.soundwayrecords.com/Shop/DownloadDetails?rid=SWR_RE_109

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