Christmas decorating

I put my Christmas tree and decorations up last Saturday. As is my tradition, I listen to a CD that my friend Andy gave me entitled, "Christmas Down on Ol' Andy's Farm" while decorating. The CD contains some classics such as "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Andy Williams, "Silent Night," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Bing Crosby, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Burl Ives, "Jingle Bells" by Dean Martin, "O Holy Night," "Sleigh Ride," and my all-time favorite non-religious Christmas song: "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole.

As happens each year, I start crying when "25th December" by Everything But the Girl plays. It's a poignant song that reminds me of the mistakes I've made in the past with respect to how I treated my family, friends, and my ex.

Everything But The Girl - 25th December

"And I see forests and it's the 25th of December and my old man plays the piano for Christmas. He plays the piano for Christmas.
And we're all there, all the aunties and uncles, and the angle's on the top of the tree. Up there on the top of the tree.
And I never, no I never ever realised. And I never, no I never ever realised.
Have I enough time, have I just some time, to revisit, to go back, to return, to open my mouth again and say something different this time.
And I see bags of newspaper and a car in the carport, and you're a grown up and still unsure, and I'm thirty and I don't know nothing no more.
And I never, no I never ever realised. And I never, no I never ever realised.
And I'm sitting, sitting on the top of the stairs, and you're crying out on the towpath by the river with all the swans and all the people walking by.
And all of a sudden I'm stuck with an urge to unlock a door with a key that's too big for my hands and I drop it, and it falls at your feet.
Come on, come on, it's there at your feet. And I never, no I never ever realised. And I never, no I never ever realised."