David Myles - The Gift lyrics
[David Myles - The Gift lyrics]
I wasn’t going home that particular december
It was snowing outside and
I remember seeing a
Man on the side of the road
He was tall and thin
And looked a lot like me
But with a tattered coat and ripped up jeans
He had lost his way and he had no home
He said "I was a man of fortune and fame
Everywhere I went they knew my name
I had everything I thought a
Man could ever need
But every Christmas season there’d
Be another reason
That I’d have to tell my friends
That I wasn’t gonna see em
For another year or til things slowed down
Well they never slowed down
They only sped up
And eventually my family and
Friends got fed up
And I was all alone when I started to fall
Well I fell so hard, I fell so fast
They say the higher you go
The bigger the crash
Like a tree in the woods
No one heard a sound"
Then he got real quite and
Started shuffling through his coat
Then he looked back at me and
Said here is a note
That I want you to read this time each year
Well I started to shake
Cause, I was startled to see
That the note I was reading was written by me
When I looked again he had disappeared
And it said:
Home ain’t home without your family
Christmas ain’t Christmas without
Your friends love ain’t something that you
Find beneath the tree
But it is the gift in the end
It was snowing outside and
I remember seeing a
Man on the side of the road
He was tall and thin
And looked a lot like me
But with a tattered coat and ripped up jeans
He had lost his way and he had no home
He said "I was a man of fortune and fame
Everywhere I went they knew my name
I had everything I thought a
Man could ever need
But every Christmas season there’d
Be another reason
That I’d have to tell my friends
That I wasn’t gonna see em
For another year or til things slowed down
Well they never slowed down
They only sped up
And eventually my family and
Friends got fed up
And I was all alone when I started to fall
Well I fell so hard, I fell so fast
They say the higher you go
The bigger the crash
Like a tree in the woods
No one heard a sound"
Then he got real quite and
Started shuffling through his coat
Then he looked back at me and
Said here is a note
That I want you to read this time each year
Well I started to shake
Cause, I was startled to see
That the note I was reading was written by me
When I looked again he had disappeared
And it said:
Home ain’t home without your family
Christmas ain’t Christmas without
Your friends love ain’t something that you
Find beneath the tree
But it is the gift in the end