Traveling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas in Montpelier, VT - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

Here comes the frost that freezes every year

shutter windows hang the Advent calendar

what are you doing on your own with frozen ears

I know we’re changing like the trees in Montpelier

you took a job that put you on the road

for days & weeks in motels' sleepy TV glow

with static filtering through pay phones in the snow

it drowns your home by Christmases & love you sos

& all our promises come so easy

they fill distances til our next meeting

but you’re always off the phone

long before I’d prefer to be

& I know that we should get some money saved

I’ve felt the kicking growing in me every day

oh we’ll live fat & happy when you get home you will say

but I’d eat beans if you’d just stay

& all our promises are so fleeting

when all I really want is you close to me but you were already out the door

by the time that occurred to me