The Other Guys - Christmas Gets Worse Every Year(Chords)

	        

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Verse 1:
 
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The tinsel/s tangled up again 
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And the tree/s not standing straight 
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I/ve switched on all the lights 
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But they won/t illumin  -  ate 


Verse 2:
 
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The angel at the top 
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Looks like she/s going   to  fall 
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And I swear when I was growing up 
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The tree didn/t look that small 


Verse 3:
 
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Gone is the magic of Christmas 
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When did it all disappear 
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The true meaning seems to have missed us 
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And Christmas gets worse every year 


Verse 4:
 
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The decorations do their best 
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But the house still feels the    same 
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Guess a pic ture    of you/s still a picture of you 
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Though it/s got tinsel on its frame 


Verse 5:
 
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And I don/t want to go out to the city 
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Cos I/m scared there/s no escape 
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And I can/t even wrap up this present without  
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losing the end of the selotapte 


Verse 6: 
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Oh won/t you come back oh St Nicholas, 
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Rudolf your red nosed reindeer? 
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I do hope they haven/t dismissed us 
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Now that Christmas gets worse every year 

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I don/t understand why I/m taking it out on Christmas 
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When it/s been like this for most of the year 
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Everything that I   ha - ave  tried has failed 
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And now my hopes are turning to fear 


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And so I wrote to Santa 
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I said ? please won/t you arrange 
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For the? bad luck that I/ve been ha ? aa ? ving 
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Oh can/t you find some way for it to change? 


Verse 7:
 
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The one thing that I want this Christmas 
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one dream that I hope comes true 
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oh what I would give 
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to share Christmas with you 


Verse 8:
 
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We never seem to get it together 
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I always felt you were slipping away 
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So tonight I/m getting desperate, 
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Gonna get down on my knees and pray 


Verse 9:
 
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I say ? dear god please let her meet me outside the cathedral 
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I/ll look her straight in the eye 
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I/ll tell her that I/ve always loved her 
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Since the heavens set stars in the sky 


Verse 10
 
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And seeing her there, with a ribbon in her hair 
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As the snow    beg- ins to fall 
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She/ll lean in and she/ll kiss me 
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And it/ll be ? the best Christmas ? of all