Well I can't wait for Christmas Been buckle-knee'd and listless And you say that you've been wishing weeks away They hung the lights out in the street Twisted round the boughs of the trees The choir sung its holiest refrains Like Gloria Hosanna in the highest Heaven knows This year's been black and blue But we're alright And this Christmas could be white for me and you I still can't sleep on Christmas Eve And we'll never miss a beat Scarlet-faced from whiskey neat in the cold Singing dancing in the dark Oh I hope these words will do
I've had my doubts but not about you I'm drunk and hearing voices in car parks And this year oh I've got love in me I swear I hope you know Gloria In Excelsis Deo If I should fall from grace If I should leave this dear green place And if Christmas fades without a trace I still want you around There's magic in this grey old town you know You should share in the refrain If you think you know the songs Who cares if all the words are wrong Who cares if it barely ever snows But still the choir smiles The carol of the bell echoes