The Banister Bough (feat. Feist)

We came to make this house a home

With pure and good intent

The lilacs and the butterflies

Showed us what home meant

They did the work that beauty does

Till leaves shook to the ground

And rain like candy canes made snow

To turn the season 'round

The people from the times before

Went out to the woods

With an axe upon their shoulder

Dreaming big of something good

But Christmas can be made as new

As footprints on the ground

So when the snow is tall as me

I'll make our banister bough

We'll ask the cedar, ask the fir

Ask the pine and ask the birds to

Come inside

Then we'll ask the holly, ask the snow

Ask the deer and the mistletoe to

Look alive

The snow has made the night so quiet

Let's make the fire crack

And stir up something warm to drink

Feet up and lean on back

I'll lay the branches on the floor

Arranged from big to small

I'll grab some string or better yet

Some ribbon or some yarn

Then we'll loop it around the spindles and rails

This first banister bough

It's all it entails

So let's open the boxes

The bobbles and bells

The tinsel's as bright

As the snow when it falls

The lights we untangled

Are tangled again

The presents we've given

The presents you sent

Are waiting

Under the banister

Bough