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Come Home (a Christmas Song)

from Come Home (a Christmas Song) by Lisa Maps

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This is a very Australian Christmas song, as well as a very honest one. I was inspired to write it because I think the season can bring up some really unsettling and difficult feelings as well as joyful ones, and I think there should be more songs out there that acknowledge that. In particular, as someone who lives away from my hometown, I was trying to capture the strange mixture of gratitude, awkwardness and guilt that I experience in coming home around this time of year. The track features my good friend and fellow Canberra artist and songwriter Jedda Do.

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Open up the windows, the room needs airing out
It's been empty for a year
It's just like you remember, the best that I could do
It just needs one last vacuum through

There's fake snow on the mantelpiece
And a wreath hanging on the door
Come home, it's all waiting for you
The lights with their coloured hues, and painted baubles

Her flight is late, it's a weather delay
An Australian summer storm
She's looking tired
'Oh, work's been crazy this year
I thought I'd never make it here

And I know that it's been too long
I see the lights with their coloured glow
And I'm home, but it's not the same
With all the candy canes and fake snow'

Pull apart the cracker, put on the silly hat
And smile for the photograph
There's one more piece of pav left, I saved it just for you
And the last of the cherries too

There's fake snow on the mantelpiece
And cards from your childhood friends
It's home for this Christmas night
And it'll be alright in the end

There's fake snow on the mantelpiece
And tinsel wrapped round the tree
You're home, and darling that's enough
So settle in my love, next to me

You're home

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from Come Home (a Christmas Song), track released November 25, 2019

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Lisa Maps Brisbane, Australia

Lisa Maps is a songwriter with heart – and a penchant for drama. A true storyteller, her songs are distinguished by her thoughtful and honest lyrics and characteristic theatrical delivery. Her music is tactile, intimate and grounded in folk – but with a twist. ... more

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