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You may not have the holiday feeling
You may not be filled with good will
You have an illness with which you’re dealing
You may be defaulting on your bills
You may be frustrated with the politics and religion of the season
You may be angry at your family and have a perfectly good reason
You may be poor and sad and lonely
You may not want to make a sound
You may be very pissed off at Elon Musk running Twitter into the ground
You may think that hope is a problematic thing to keep handing out for free
You may have an on going beef with your neighbour on which you never will agree
You might be a vegan, you might be a Mormon you might despair at all this waste
You might just not like this season it might not be to your taste
You might be missing Halloween you might look forward to New Year
You might have things that worry you and a list of things to fear
You might think the world is ghastly with its wars, disease and climate change
You may be all in favour of alien invasion and find society pretty strange
You may abhor reality TV, talk shows and all the popular crap that is oddly universal
You may want to strangle whoever it is who makes insurance company commercials
You may think modern music is rubbish and wish your children liked the music you do
You may just really dislike your children and honestly who can blame you
And you may want to run away but have nowhere left to go
You may just hate the cold weather and despair about the snow
You might wrap yourself in flags and march to take away other people’s rights
You might be overwhelmed by all the outrage and the endless stupid fights
You might dislike all the billionaires as much as they dislike paying tax
And the fact they’ve built their businesses on everyone else’s backs
You might hate the compromise you make living in a world you don’t understand
Where just to clothe yourself and eat a little means blood is on your hands
You might hate the child labour
That built the phone you’re listening to this on
You might just really hate my face and hate everything about this song
But at least we try once a year to put our differences aside
And share a little of the love we’ve been saving quietly inside
And I know you might be sick at this point of all these fucking rhymes
And I know other traditions and religions celebrate at other times
And I know there is a very heteronormative CIS white male middle class Christian westernised sentiment behind the words I sing
But I heard recognising my privilege might still be a thing
And so please I ask during this Christmas or holiday period you find just something that gives you thankful or happy feels
And let me know what it is on social
Because if it isn’t on social media these days is it even real?
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Winter
05:19
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The sky a grey watercolour
The ground hardens fast
None of the leaves on the trees will last
The breeze from the north bites at the tips of your fingers
Deep into your bones where it invariably lingers
But there’s fire and love
Sweaters and scarves
And all of the warmth
That these things preserve
There’s holidays and decorations
To fill us with cheer
And songs and stories that we roll out each year
There’s families gathering and you connect with old friends
we know the new year will start when this one eventually ends
Light the fire show the love
Use up your reserves
And share all of this warmth
We so richly deserve
And if you think you can’t find the spirit inside of you
Know that we’re here to help and we hope that you try
It may seem corny and cool to reject it
But the more you give in the more it helps you get by
And your soul can fly
There’s food and there’s feasting
Surrounded by laughter and singing
Lights hang on the houses and new traditions beginning
There’s hot chocolate hugs
And mistletoe kisses
Photo albums filled with sweet past reminisces
Reach out to the ones who have less and are on their last nerve
Give what you can
Be all the promise you serve
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Stars Converge
04:37
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It’s now all I know
You and the weather
My heart will outgrow
My chest altogether
Because this is the time
And this the place
And all this success
Shines through your face
Take to the hills
I know you’re there waiting
With perpetual thrills
And endless creating
Because no one can tell us
When to emerge
And all of the stars
Start to converge
When winter settles in
I would get cold down to my bones
Without you
And with the lights down low
And the reassuring glow
Of this space
I’m free
You and me
And our dog that’s three
Let the winter settle in
Here’s where we want to be
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The Garden
03:56
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Watch the garden
For the signs
Map the year out
Inside the lines
Let plans settle
Let dust blow
It’s a value that applies
Everywhere that you might go
It’s the turn
Of the leaves
It’s the hardening
Of the breeze
It’s the bite
of the wood
It’s something that at first glance
Won’t do us any good
If you eventually emerge scuffed up but alive and at a place that you can better understand
Nothing out there in the infinite that can’t be fixed by asking for one more helping hand
And a track where we can land
When the grass
Is left alone
When we’re happy
That it’s grown
When the breaks
Give back the grain
When the answers are
Really all the same
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Miscellaneous Plumbing Fixtures New Milford, Connecticut
Songwriting and banging your instruments together
The main thing I love to do is write
songs. I pick up various instruments from ukulele to piano, accordion to percussion and electric guitar to harmonica and bang them about to try and get close to the noises I hear in my head but the writing comes first.
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