The Other Guys - Christmas Gets Worse Every Year

INTRO|: Verse 1: The tinsel/s tangled up again And the tree/s not standing straight I/ve switched on all the lights But they won/t illumin - ate Verse 2: The angel at the top Looks like she/s going to fall And I swear when I was growing up The tree didn/t look that small Verse 3: Gone is the magic of Christmas When did it all disappear The true meaning seems to have missed us And Christmas gets worse every year Verse 4: The decorations do their best But the house still feels the same Guess a pic ture of you/s still a picture of you Though it/s got tinsel on its frame Verse 5: And I don/t want to go out to the city Cos I/m scared there/s no escape And I can/t even wrap up this present without losing the end of the selotapte Verse 6: Oh won/t you come back oh St Nicholas, Rudolf your red nosed reindeer? I do hope they haven/t dismissed us Now that Christmas gets worse every year I don/t understand why I/m taking it out on Christmas When it/s been like this for most of the year Everything that I ha - ave tried has failed And now my hopes are turning to fear And so I wrote to Santa I said ? please won/t you arrange For the? bad luck that I/ve been ha ? aa ? ving Oh can/t you find some way for it to change? Verse 7: The one thing that I want this Christmas one dream that I hope comes true oh what I would give to share Christmas with you Verse 8: We never seem to get it together I always felt you were slipping away So tonight I/m getting desperate, Gonna get down on my knees and pray Verse 9: I say ? dear god please let her meet me outside the cathedral I/ll look her straight in the eye I/ll tell her that I/ve always loved her Since the heavens set stars in the sky Verse 10 And seeing her there, with a ribbon in her hair As the snow beg- ins to fall She/ll lean in and she/ll kiss me And it/ll be ? the best Christmas ? of all