"Christmas Day"

Where in the world did you come from my dear?
Did some mysterious voice tell you I'd still be here? I bought this
ticket to Mobile, but I been stranded all day...p.a. said the bus
broke down ten miles away from the station.
So seldom a door...so seldom a key...so seldom a lock like the love
between you and me. But seldom comes happiness without the
pain of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your face
as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998.
The burden of love is the fuel of bad grammar.
You stutter and stammer--what a bitch to convey the crux of the
matter, when the words you must utter are hopelessly tangled in
the memories and scars you show no one. So seldom a door...so
seldom a key...so seldom a hit like the hurt you put on me.
But seldom comes happiness without the pain of the devil in the
details since I saw the smile on your face as I was crying in a
Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in 1998. I remember quite
clearly, a bad Muzak version of James Taylor's big hit, called "Fire
and Rain" was playing as you crouched down and tearfully kissed
me, and I thought, "Damn, what good fiction I will mold from this
terrible pain." So seldom a door...so seldom a key...so seldom a gift
like the gift you gave me. But seldom comes happiness without
the pain of the devil in the details since I saw the smile on your
face as I was crying in a Greyhound station on Christmas Day...in
1998. Amazing grace, how sweet the smile upon the face I never
thought I'd see you again...especially here in this Greyhound
station...on Christmas Day...in 1998