Christmas Without You
              Scott Leonard

I crunch across the street
To the Maine man who sells us our tree every year
He asks how we’ve been
I just smile and say "bag up that five foot blue spruce please"
Nice trees

The taxi ride home, I’m just fine, it’s just me and a tree and Abduhl
He shows me the lights, red or green doesn’t matter,
pedestrians scatter neath
A snowflake of light, suspended, high above 57th,
we slide to my stoop, I track in,
put up the spruce, step back and see -
how it’s gonna be

Christmas without you, it’s hittin home, I’m all alone
Christmas without you, so unfamiliar
Christmas without the love we shared, a little much to bear,
This Christmas

At least you left the lights, okay, half, probably the ones that blink
Where are you tonight?
Everyday I’m a mess even Rudolf’s depressing,
I hop on a train to Macy’s,
Thinkin I’ll just replace these memories we made together.
But all the memory shelves are bare

Christmas without you, it’s hittin home, I’m all alone
Christmas without you, so unfamiliar
Christmas without the love we shared, is far too much to bear
Don’t think I’ll ever be the same, this Christmas without  you

Lonely are the days, lonely are the nights without you (refrain)
Christmas without you –
Lonely are the days, lonely are the nights without you