I Wanna Write a Christmas Song

I wanna write a Christmas song

Just like Irving Berlin

Buy ornaments on vacation

Look back as we unpack them

I wanna cut down a live tree

After the Thanksgiving Day Parade

Struggle with a tree farm's cheap old bow saw

And then somehow fit it in the minivan

I wanna rearrange half the living room

Buy another cord for the model train set

Hunt for fuses down in the basement

Toss entire strings when I don't find them

I wanna be trusted not to kill the thing

Make sure water fills the stand

Keep on top of all the needles

Nervously counting down Advent

The first time you acted so self-consciously

It barely rose above an act

You know initially any ritual

At some point has to start from scratch

I wanna hang this on my Christmas song

Be present in the moment

I wanna give a gift of every year

I wanna climb on top of that

I wanna fly above my Christmas song

Always stay in this moment

I wanna give a gift of every year

I wanna climb on top of that