Holiday Hours - The Posies

I’m waking up;

I’m getting out into the daily motion

I’m placing bets;

I’m rising up to meet your day

It’s presentation of the perfect family expectation

Tinseled evergreens are losing their display

Stop and starters, winter partners, under doormat key

Warrior weekends, shallow deep ends

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t give what you need

I don’t ever want to hear

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t let you be

I don’t ever want to hear

They’re just the product of a childhood better left forgetting

You’re so the picture of an image I have seen

There’s a synopsis in the boxes housed on storefront shelving

A case of delving as the week’s unraveling

Basement bargains, in-law jargons, buy one/get one free

Sibling rivals, heirloom bibles, half-lit family tree

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t give what you need

I don’t ever want to hear

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t help you be

I don’t ever want to see

Walk to the front of the line ‘round the block

In the back of your mind to the place you left behind

And if you need some extra time to gather all your rations

I’ll keep the shop lights burning longer than today

Before the night, before you drive up to your parents' hometown

And put your effervescent lights out on display

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t give what you need

I don’t ever want to hear

I don’t ever want to hear they won’t let you be

I don’t ever want to see

I don’t ever want to hear