Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas Lyrics
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 crèche 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. 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 inlaws and snowdays 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 fo
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Okkervil River Songs (97) List All
A Girl In Port
A Glow
A Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene
A King And A Queen
A Stone
Another Radio Song
Auntie Alice
Black
Black Sheep Boy
Blanket And Crib
Blue Tulip
Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979
Calling And Not Calling My Ex
Can't Be Saved
Dead Dog Song
Dead Faces
Dead!
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Falling Away With You
For Real
For The Captain
For The Enemy
Get Big
H.
Hanging From A Hit
Happy Hearts
He Passes Number Thirty-Three
Heaven Help Us
I Hate Myself And Want to Die
Icky Thump
If I Ain't Got You
If I Fall
Imagine
In A Radio Song
In My Daughter's Eyes
In The Name Of God
It Ends With A Fall
John Allyn Smith Sails
Kansas City
Kathy Keller
Lady Liberty
Lay Of The Last Survivor
Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
Little Wonder
Lost Coastlines
Lucky
Maine Island Lovers
Millionaire
Missing
My Bad Days
Oh, Precious
Ohio Is For Lovers
Okkervil River Song
On Tour With Zykos
Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
Pain
Piratess
Plus Ones
Pop Lie
Progenies of The Great Apocalypse
Red
Reinventing Your Exit
Rider
Running Up That Hill
Sad But True
Sanitarium
Savannah Smiles
Seas Too Far To Reach
Silence Is A Scary Sound
Singer Songwriter
So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Sober
Soldiers Of The Wasteland
Song About A Star
Song of Our So-Called Friend
Stand Ins, One
Stand Ins, Two
Starry Stairs
The Last Night
The Latest Toughs
The Rise
The Valley
The Velocity Of Saul At The Time Of His Conversion
The War Criminal Rises And Speaks
Title Track
Unless It Kicks
Vermillion, Pt. 2
Wake And Be Fine
We Need A Myth
Westfall
What Sarah Said
White Shadow Waltz
Whole Wide World
Wires
Yellow
You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
Your Past Life As A Blast
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