Christmas Lights

I drive down my childhood street
Watch it wind and bend and bleed
Holiday charm wore off
Christmas lights illuminate all the dark

I'm in a car and I am ten
Counting streetlights, holding my breath
You fell asleep at the wheel
Drunken protector, and I feel

Numb
On Christmas
100 gifts could make me feel, anything
At all
And I'm reeling
You ruined this for me
You ruined this, for me

A million family’s way of
Getting close
I never got it
Never got the cheer
All you ever gave me was
A drunk drive home