If You Come Home For Christmas

If you come home for Christmas I'm really gonna try To do a bit more listening And less fanning your fire There's one or two concessions I know I gotta make To keep my shit together for a day Let's talk about our old friends And those who've come and gone And names that we stopped mentioning For reasons we forgot But did you hear about Amanda? She got her something new I met him at the wedding Man, he's got nothing on you If you come home for Christmas And stay til the new year I'll listen when you talk And tell you what you wanna hear We'd gather at the table With one eye on the news You'd say that I am no Samaritan Well I picked that up from you Cause there are words that fill the silence And words we go without Last year you said you'd visit more While you were still around Couple million families all carving up a bird But nothing cuts as deep As when you don't say a word If you come home for Christmas I promise that I'll try To do a bit more listening And less fanning your fire I'm done with all the fighting It's just another thing to lose And our last conversation Took the air out of the room The tears and the tinsel Will come out soon enough We love the ones who hurt us And we hurt the ones we love Yeah we love the ones who hurt us And we hurt the ones we love