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Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas

Home is where beds are made and butter is added to toast
On a cold afternoon you can float room to room like a ghost
Take the creche out and argue about who gets to set up the kings
And I know that it's home because that's where the stereo sings

I've got dreams to remember
But not even home can be with you forever
It's Christmastime and the plane flies me over
White hills to a town in a dream

Where the sky is frozen and still and a room
(That's not mine but it's just like I left it before
With the wax from the candles all dusty
And locks on the door)

Where I held you so tenderly
And where in summer I opened your letter to me
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I'm standing where we knelt and a miracle mile now borders it
But if I turn my back and look at the field
I don't even notice it for a second

There's a tangle of greenery where winter scenery ends
And I hear that song sometimes and imagine us much more than friends
Like if we stayed in this town, bought the first house that went up on sale
And how each Christmastime would bring in laws and snow days

And holiday mail
Your dad says you're living in Georgia since last September
Well, I've got dreams to remember, I've got dreams to remember
Oh Sara, come back to New Hampshire
We'll stay here forever