Christmas In New York - Rodney Crowell

That Christmas in New York, Mayflower Hotel

When we first got together I didn’t know you well

With popcorn and paper, we trimmed us a tree

That Christmas in New York, it was just you and me

Oh, what a night

Oh, what a day

That Christmas in LA, the Santa Ana wind

Drunk and disordered was the shape we’d gotten in

Eat, drink and be merry, tomorrow you’ll cry

When it’s Christmas in LA, let sleeping dogs lie

On through the night

On through the day

The thing that I could never quite put my finger on

Before we both got started it was already gone

Was it something in our nature, kept us looking for the worst?

Only three feet from the well and we’d both rather die of thirst

There’s one thing I can count on but never understand

The way that I remember you I’d do it all again

In spite of burned out bridges that we can’t get back across

There’s something at the heart of what we had I’ve never lost

It’s Christmas in New York, and wouldn’t you know?

The Gramercy Park Hotel neither had a foot of snow

It’s your kind of weather that time of year

It’s Christmas in New York and I wish you were here

Just for one night

Just for one day

Just for one night

Just for one day

Just for one night

Just for one day

Just for one night

Just for one day