Peter Geoffrey Hynes - Green at Christmas lyrics

rain's falling softly, washing away the white: there'll be no snow left for Christmas this year. the green takes me back, over oceans and time, to when we were always all together. before d**h and love broke us apart. we were family, often friends, making merry in the old way, with good food and a fire and truly good cheer— instead of expensive presents, far too much booze, and the ever-maniacal Boxing Day sale. I surprise myself, wishing those days could come back; but I can't raise the dead, nor mend the rift those wild lovers rent in the family fabric I thought was so strong. but maybe I don't give it its proper due: it's clearly holding me, still