Winter's Tale Lyrics

Oh mother dear did I write to you?

When my hands were cold and blue

From the 14th floor of this tower so tall

Return to you know who

Just a paper and a pen, old scribble-di-di-di-di

Season's greetings written at the start

Sooner or later, now or then, I hope you keep good company

I mean it from the bottom of my heart

So let it snow, let it snow, watch the fire slowly glow

On a TV screen subscription it's the only way to go

Deck the halls, deck the halls, with your funeral shawls

Proudly standing silent but there's pride before the fall

Pre-printed prediction. Merry Christmas

Well the family's fine, hardly perfect but we're trying

Cos you take nothing for granted here and now

Memories of 2017 under a polypropylene tree

Surrounded by a thousand plastic flowers

Five gold rings, five gold rings, as the choir softly sings

Their frozen breath's angelic and we're waiting in the wings

Once in royal David's city, leather boots no time for pity

But the cattle shed's dilapidated looking far from pretty

Corporate card collection, Merry Christmas

Precious little Christmas cheer, quartered way out here

Sent out with the early morning mail

Well I hope it's not the last, signed and sealed, second class

Won't you write me when you've got something to tell

Silent night, holy night, solely right, violence might be

The answer to the question when you're looking for a fight

Jingle bells, jingle bells, when the biting wind chills

The fingers round the biro as I write this winter's tale

Blue and black indifference, Merry Christmas