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The Last Tangerine

from A Christmas Miracle! by Amy & Tokyo

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A slightly more realistic Christmas song I wrote to be sung with joyful suspicion.

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I'm not a big spender but I'm not a Scrooge,
I can't cook a turkey but I'll order food,
I don't have crackers but I'll crack a joke or two

I'm not a skilled wrapper when it comes to gifts,
and not the best driver when it comes to lifts,
But the pre-paid Visa I’m re-gifting has a card

We’re all too cold to take off our sweaters
but not so old that a bad piano cover
of a holiday tune won’t turn this into a dance

The street plow buries us at 4AM
And the kids wake up just to shovel again,
while we supervise their snowmen in the yard

My mother’s in the kitchen like a Kung Fu Spartan
keeping fingers out of gravy and the eggnog carton
your great aunt scavenged all the chocolate brandy beans

It’s not too late for my Satchmo playlist,
You stack the plates and I’ll dry the dishes
Dad didn’t show cuz that’s what “I’m leaving” means.

The glue-gun wreath you hung is leaving pinecone chippings on the ground
Climb the ladder, fix the lights we probably will never take down
Someone left the furnace on, the stockings caught on fire
My christmas wish: a tip-toe kiss, no mistletoe required
If it came to it, we'd skip the trip and save on winter tires
If it wasn’t for our dissonance, we’d make a boring choir

Hang an ornament or three,
on our tiny plastic tree,
save the last tangerine for me.
Throw our cellphones in the snow,
while we name the stars we know,
save the last clementine for me

credits

from A Christmas Miracle!, released December 18, 2015
Tokyo Speirs: songwriting, recording, mixing mastering, performance
Amy Dagenais: singing like an angel

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Tokyo Speirs Aylmer, Québec

I'm a gingerbearded music producer and songwriter, and if you twist my arm I'll sing.

I also like long walks on the beach, and hate sand in my sandwiches.

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