Happy Christmas (The Whole World Has Changed) – Richard Edwards and The Velvet Ocean
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Happy Christmas Your mother looks older She looks sadder than I’ve ever seen her Those lines when she looks down are new Or at least I haven’t seen ’em before Took lye to my eyes Stuffed rocks in my boots And was descended upon by a lonely woman And her unruly children who tried to hide me away
Happy Christmas The whole world has changed There’s an orange ape in the White House And your mother looks strange So tell me what the hell to do When love don’t recede like you want it to They’ve plied me with booze Sucked on my toes I’ve been transported to Rome by enlightened females And I never wanted you more So happy Christmas You fuck
Holy hell Goddammit, I I get lost without you I get lost without you, jelly Oh here it comes again Another weekend without you Where I’ll pace around with a gun in my mouth Oh here it comes again I’ll go to sleep with my shoes on That’s when it starts to get weird, oh And I have a vision Some just call ’em dreams You’re a little bit older and you understand these things Oh, and one day, quite by chance In a city that resembles Los Angeles You reach out your hand You reach out your hand and say, “hey padre How ya doin’? I’ve never seen you quite this spry before” Yeah, you appear like smoke We might share a joke About the time I had the bad dream That lasted so long
Happy Christmas And thank the Lord That we are only brushed by this storm