Hello there Christmas eve, the stains set on my feet 
curled up in my wounds, the snow comes down in flumes 
Surely you would know, a light under the snow 
a handles frozen fate, a lovers lonely sleigh 

And you could see me walking, and I'll never turn around 
they said I'm a clown, a Christmas clown 

Bags over my shoes, my scarf's in tattered twos 
the hum beneath the lights, where I held you Christmas night 
A family seated there, I won't what I always fear 
my grandma used to say, it's good on Christmas eve 

But surprise I'm always talking talking and never listening 
you think I'm a flea, a Christmas flea 

I could smell the snow, under the slope of my red nose 
these new clothes made me a man, but the time carved up my hands 
So I strive off in the night, another Christmas won't be right 
and when we meet under the lights, just promise to drive on by 

Cause I was only stopping by for a little while in your life 
oh Christmas tonight, Christmas tonight 

So we turned upside down, in the lifeboat we have found 
And you tucked away the sails, and I feel back down the stairs 

But that was my last Christmas and I'll lay right here on the ground 
oh you think I'm a clown, the Christmas clown