Come Home for Christmas

Intro

La-la-la (ooh) — mm-hm, mm-hm

Verse

Grandma's mitten on the banister, knitted red and gold

I can hear the kettle laughing, like it did when I was small

Tin stars on the tree that we kept from the very first year

They tilt and they whisper (tilt, tilt), like an old, familiar cheer

Pre-chorus

Snow drifts past the window, slow and soft and kind

We trace the same old footprints that we left behind (yeah)

Candles on the mantle, cedar on the door

I swear I can still taste the candy cane we used to pour (mm)

Chorus

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire (come on)

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again

Verse

Small-footed shadows scuffing across the kitchen tile

Grandfather's clock keeps smiling in its slow and certain style

There’s cocoa on the counter, marshmallows float like moons

We carve our names on paper plates, we sing our forgiving tunes

Pre-chorus

Old records spin the stories, the needle knows the lines

Each crackle stitches memories to the collar of the time (mm-hm)

Faint laughter in the hallway, a coat that's left to dry

The world feels softer here, beneath this rooftop sky

Chorus

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire (come on)

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again

Bridge

Remember the front porch lullaby — the radio and rain

You taught me how to mend a mitten and to name each falling name (name)

We traded pennies for our wishes, we lit paper dreams so small

And every year the roof remembers how we learned to keep them all (keep them all)

Chorus

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire (come on)

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again

Come home, come home for Christmas, come sit by the fire

Come hum the same old carols, bring a little tired desire (la-la)

Hold my hand, hold my hand, like we did back when

Come home, come home for Christmas — oh-oh, come home again