This Time of Year

Project 86 This Time of Year Lyrics
1.This Time of Year

Little girls
And little boys
Dream of worlds
Full of toys
This time of the year
When Christmas is near

Evergreens are snowy white
Sleigh bells ring
Through the night
This time of the year
When Christmas is near

And somewhere near a steeple
People kneel and pray
And choirs sing carols
Of Christmas day

Santa Claus is on his way
With loads of joy
On his sleigh
This time of the year
When Christmas is near
This time
When Christmas is near
This time
When Christmas is near


2.Wrought On This Holiday's Eve

Now we
Awake
Bathed in glowing white
Anticipation gripping with
this morning's promised sights
One had come up missing while we
Rubbed our weary eyes
We wonder where our father
could have been throughout the night

Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
Exposed
Exposed
For all your crooked ways
Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
So save your breath
We celebrate
This ending to your reign

Your look it betrays you
You've no excuse to claim
10 AM it came and went as we waited
And we waited for
The smell of harlot's fume,
exuding from your skin
One last seduction
'Twas the night
Before you met your end

Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
Exposed
Exposed
For all your crooked ways
Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
So save your breath
We celebrate
This ending to your reign

You want to sow all your seeds in dirty deeds
But retribution's wrought on this Holiday's eve

You want to sow all your seeds in dirty deeds
But retribution's wrought on this Holiday's eve

.....

Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
Exposed
Exposed
For all your crooked ways
Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
So save your breath
We celebrate
This ending to your reign

Captured, we watch you
Writhing to escape
So save your breath
We celebrate
This ending to your reign
Wrought on this Holiday's eve


3.Shiny Skin

I shut my eyes in attempts to try to sleep
Knowing that it's impossible
The restlessness that grips me like a tomb
Pushes me toward tomorrow
Cause nothing can ever satisfy
Me like you

Tear right through
This shiny skin
Cause it's a pressure
that you cannot escape
So we must tear right through
And try to fill
Pretend the emptiness won't still remain

The countless images taunt me
With promises of surrender
What will tomorrow present me with?
With a distraction from who provided it?
Cause nothing can ever satisfy
Me like you

Tear right through
This shiny skin
Cause it's a pressure
that you cannot escape
So we must tear right through
And try to fill
Pretend the emptiness won't still remain

Inside that box is a gift
That we will soon forget
Forget and forget
It's not that we want what's inside it
We just wanted to open it
Open it

Tear right through
This shiny skin
Cause it's a pressure
that you cannot escape
So we must tear right through
And try to fill
Pretend the emptiness won't still remain


4.Misfit Toys

Every season feels the same
I'm sure you could agree
This day can bring reminders
Of the blackest memories

My pieces never seem to fit
Blood that's closest to me
Are more like vacant faces
Dolls with dead batteries

We're all broken
Like misfit toys
We rest in pieces begging for you
to make us one

If today is just about these
Pine trees and lights
I'll take a match and strike it
While my living room ignites

We're all broken
Like misfit toys
We rest in pieces begging for you
to make us one

So in the distance
All I see is bathed in snowy white
While we're stranded on this island
Under black stars tonight

Take one look
In my eyes and you'll know
Only when we're broken can we be restored

We're all broken
Like misfit toys
We're all broken
Like misfit toys


5.What Child

Instrumental