Wait until the kids are sleeping Don't want them to hear me leaving I'll send a letter to the lawyers I'm going to make this easy for you But yet again (Yet again, yet again, yet again) Looks like I won't be home for Christmas And yet again (Yet again, yet again, yet again) My bags are packed It's late December And another year has slipped away Another lonely Christmas Day I'll set a course for California And try my very best not to call you This year I'll escape the winter Make a new start, break a new heart But yet again (Yet again, yet again, yet again) Looks like I won't be home for Christmas And yet again (Yet again, yet again, yet again) There's a thousand miles between us And another year that's seen us Throw it all away, one we won't get back again Another lonely Christmas Day