Last Christmas you left me at home with a note
It said, "I want to be somewhere out in the snow"
"Where I'm lost in a sea of cherry and oak"
"Far away from your wintery eyes in the cold"
"I would have stayed just to hold you"
"But I realized I don't know you"

Now you're just a page/name in my notebook X4

This Christmas I'm left here on my own
No stockings hung or mistle toe
Only dust and ice on a window
Where I'm alone watching the fire burn slow, it burns slow
You should have stayed so I could hold you
But then again, I didn't know you

Now you're just a page/name in my notebook X4

Next Christmas I know you'll save me
Take me back and restore my sanity
Stringing lights all over the fir tree
You're in my arms and we're caroling
We'll be dancing to the songs we once knew
The lights go out but we will make do
And you'll be there so I can hold you
it will feel right, as I know you

And we'll be there in my notebook X4
(Backing vocals: Be there)