Stray
(Perdido)

Christmas ornaments collide
Like glitter down a slide
Like twilight on the tide
Shining in a diver's eyes
Under the tree
Unopened gifts
Bound for the lost and found
Tinsel cliffs fallen on the ground

It's warm inside but she shivers outside
Staring at Christmas lights
Counting the burn outs
One for each fear
And one for each doubt
Looking back at all the Christmases
And the things she had to be
She'd get what she expected
But never what she'd need

Trying to make it happen again
That one good time
Yeah it was shallow but
Somehow strangely sublime
Consumerism ad nauseum
On Xmas day
Feeling like a stray
Alone on Xmas day

How does it live?
They gotta kill it
If its empty, they will fill it
Is it fine? Make it coarse
Spoil innocence with remorse
If its pure, they'll pollute it
Is it honest? They lie about it
If its real, they fake it
If its strong they will break it

But one stray got away
Finding out its okay
Alone on Xmas day

When the options were weighed
There was no reason to stay
She was lucky
She got away
Feeling like a stray
Finding out its okay
Alone on Xmas day

Nothing's ever satisfying
Whoever said otherwise was lying
Don't bother denying
Like forests on our curbs drying
There's no use crying about dying
When the thing about living is
The thing about living is
The beauty is in the trying
The beauty is in the trying