The Most Painful Time of the Year Lyrics

Tears are falling on ribbons of red

I should be wrapping your present

But I'm crying instead

And I knew just what to get you

All your favorite things

'Cause I'd trade the whole world to see

The smile it would bring

How can it be the most wonderful time of the year

When there's a place at my table where someone is not here

So spare me all your happy holiday and cheer

'Cause there's a place by my tree where someone is not here

It's the most painful time of the year

I found that old present

That you gave me that year

Now I hold it tightly

To imagine you are here

'Cause I'd trade the whole world to feel

Like you are near

How can it be the most wonderful time of the year

When there's a place at my table where someone is not here

So spare me all your happy holiday and cheer

'Cause there's a place by my tree where someone is not here

It's the most painful time of the year

But I'll remember all those years

I still had you with me here

Nothing can take that from me

I hold you in my memory

Tears are falling with the snow

Melting deep beneath my soul

If you could hear me I would say

You are worth all of this pain

How can it be the most wonderful time of the year

When there's a place at my table where someone is not here

So spare me all your happy holiday and cheer

'Cause there's a place by my tree where someone is not here

It's the most painful time of the year