Jonathan Coulton

Christmas Is Interesting

Jonathan Coulton


You have put on your feety pajamas 
It's time for a long winter's nap 
There's a knock on the door and a stranger is there 
He wants you to sit on his lap 
He takes your watch and he gives you a hairbrush 
Your wife gets a wig on a chain 
He says he can't stay 
Cause he's got a long way to go 
And it's starting to rain 

Christmas is interesting 
Like a knife in your heart 
Christmas is interesting 
How it tears you apart 
Christmas is interesting 
Like a stick in your eye 
It's so freaking interesting 
That it might make you cry 

So you're an elf, but you'd rather be a dentist 
Maybe you're a train with square wheels 
Maybe you're a squirt gun that only shoots jam 
Now you know how Jesus feels 
He is riding a sleigh he calls Rosebud 
His mansion is lonely and cold 
He can't remember a pleasant December 
When he wasn't tired and old 

Christmas is interesting 
Like a knife in your heart 
Christmas is interesting 
How it tears you apart 
Christmas is interesting 
Like a stick in your eye 
It's so freaking interesting 
That it might make you cry 

So you're drunk and your name is Jimmy Stewart 
You once had a wonderful life 
Then you lost all your money, you cracked up your car 
You yelled at your favorite wife 
You go to bed and you wait for Jacob Marley 
He comes to make you feel brave 
But under his cloak he is nothing but smoke 
And a finger that points at your grave 

Christmas is interesting 
Like a knife in your heart 
Christmas is interesting 
How it tears you apart 
Christmas is interesting 
Like a stick in your eye 
It's so freaking interesting 
That it might make you cry