Cold White Christmas-Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

[ti:Cold White Christmas] [ar:Casiotone For The Painfully Al] [al:Merry X-mas (2008)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.88]Cap & gown in purple & gold [00:07.11] [00:10.98]You're 22 years old & a woman now you're told [00:17.54] [00:23.77]Aunt Beth & Charlie cut a check [00:27.21] [00:28.71]For the graduating niece [00:30.58] [00:34.14]& you marked your independence [00:38.14]With a signature on a lease [00:41.07] [00:45.00]But home was a photograph you taped to your wall [00:51.93] [00:52.86]It's gonna be a cold white Christmas in St Paul [01:00.22] [01:17.50]Beer for breakfast who's gonna scold [01:21.24] [01:25.43]You've got your early hours dulled [01:29.42] [01:30.16]By the cigarettes you rolled [01:32.04] [01:37.78]Second shift as a fry cook [01:40.46] [01:43.46]That's your holiday in grease [01:45.40] [01:48.89]& you trudge to work through the snow [01:52.26]In a coat down to your knees [01:55.69] [01:59.61]& you linger at the twinkle lights [02:01.93] [02:04.49]As you pass by the mall [02:06.67] [02:07.24]& count the days to a cold white Christmas [02:13.15]In St Paul [02:14.65] [03:14.76]Feather down the nights get so cold [03:20.25] [03:22.75]& you ignore the smell of mold [03:27.49]As you smooth out the folds [03:29.43] [03:35.67]When you're on your own [03:37.41] [03:40.47]You've got no one to please [03:43.21] [03:46.14]In a Minnesota city just as bare [03:49.58]& as mean as the winter trees [03:52.88] [03:56.94]But you'll be damned [03:59.00]If you're the one making collect calls [04:03.68] [04:05.49]On a cold white Christmas in St Paul [04:12.04] [04:16.10]Yeah it's a cold white Christmas in St Paul