Stay Safe For Me - Christmas song for 2020, commissioned by William P. (Patreon)

What do you write to get people in the holiday spirit during a worldwide crisis? Maybe this. William P both commissioned this song, and wrote the lyrics for it. I enjoyed building up a chorale around the melody, and hopefully struck some of the american golden age style songwriting I was going for.

Please stay safe this winter.

Stay Safe For Me - Lyrics by William P.

A Bm7  A/C#

This year has been so long now 

D Dm A

what was months can feel like years

F# F#/A# Bm

The gap maintained between us 

A/C#  E/B E

yet unshared joys and tears 

A   Bm7  A/C#

The days are getting shorter 

D Dm C#7

yet I miss you ever more

F#m A/E  D A/C#

The wind feels ever colder

   D/B E7  A(sus) A

my empty arms forlorn 

Chorus:

A   A/C#  D D/F#

For now stay safe for me

B  B7/D# E E/D

I'll do the same for you

C#7 C#7/F F#m B7/D#

and I will see you soon

  DM7 DM7/E   A

shining smile in plain view 

Family, friends, all distanced 

All are precious in our minds 

every day keeps us worried 

we’ve said our last goodbye 

Before this year had started

Who ever could have thought

That six feet kept between us

could slowly break our hearts

-

video calls connect us 

they have been a saving grace  

the screens feel so much lesser 

than times when we’re face to face 

This year I cannot hug you 

though it tears my soul apart 

I wish that I could be there

though for now we stay apart 

-- chorus --

The things we thought we needed 

wealth and towers in the sky 

are each but distant memories 

It’s hard enough getting by 

the store shelves may be empty

"essentials" all long gone

nothing I can buy you

so instead I wrote this song

-

right now we're all just waiting

for these distanced times to end

so we can be together

with family and with friends

For now we practice patience 

That day is getting near 

when we can both be close again

and we can both be here

--chorus --

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