Lyrics Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton

Christmas Is Interesting

You have put on your feety pajamas

It's time for a long winter's nap

There's a knock on the door and a stranger is there

He wants you to sit on his lap

He takes your watch and he gives you a hairbrush

Your wife gets a wig on a chain

He says he can't stay

'Cause he's got a long way to go

And it's starting to rain

Christmas is interesting

Like a knife in your heart

Christmas is interesting

How it tears you apart

Christmas is interesting

Like a stick in your eye

It's so freaking interesting

That it might make you cry

So you're an elf, but you'd rather be a dentist

Maybe you're a train with square wheels

Maybe you're a squirt gun that only shoots jam

Now you know how Jesus feels

He is riding a sleigh he calls Rosebud

His mansion is lonely and cold

He can't remember a pleasant December

When he wasn't tired and old

Christmas is interesting

Like a knife in your heart

Christmas is interesting

How it tears you apart

Christmas is interesting

Like a stick in your eye

It's so freaking interesting

That it might make you cry

So you're drunk and your name is Jimmy Stewart

You once had a wonderful life

Then you lost all your money, you cracked up your car

You yelled at your favorite wife

You go to bed and you wait for Jacob Marley

He comes to make you feel brave

But under his cloak he is nothing but smoke

And a finger that points at your grave

Christmas is interesting

Like a knife in your heart

Christmas is interesting

How it tears you apart

Christmas is interesting

Like a stick in your eye

It's so freaking interesting

That it might make you cry