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Ghost of Christmas Present

by Josh Weinstein

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A stunning song about the darker side of Christmas and any holiday--missing the family you lost or never had.

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Left my children on Christmas Day
Still remember their faces as I drove away
The dark confusion in my daughter’s eyes
The way my little boy waved

Never thought I’d still be away
And I regret it yet to this very day,
But every street I’d cross
Would remind me of what I’d lost.

Now I’m the ghost of Christmas present
A distant phone call buzzin
Just a name my kids remember from their past.

I’m the hope of something coming
From everything I wasn’t
For a boy and girl with their nose against the glass
With the Ghost of Christmas present fading fast

Funny thing happens when you find the road
You tend to wind up where it goes
Miles turn into years 'til you lose track
Of the way back

Your birthdays measure the beds you slept in
The tears and laughs and screams you kept in
Every day’s the same
Nothing ever changes but the lanes.

Now I’m the ghost of Christmas present
A distant phone call buzzin
The years we never had that add up fast

I had the hope of overcoming
everything I wasn’t
But this old man with his head inside a glass
Is just a Ghost of Christmas present from their past

Well I been running since 95 now
and the only keeping me alive now
Is to
Hope before my time goes
The old winter wind blows
This Ghost of Christmas present
Ghost of Christmas present
Ghost of Christmas present home
at last.

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released December 2, 2022
Words, music, performance and arrangement copyright 2022 Josh Weinstein
Recorded and mixed by Jeff Berkley at Satellite Studios
Mastered by Robbie Robinson
Produced by Jeff Berkley and Josh Weinstein

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