Ebenezer Scrooge

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[Verse 1]
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It was Christmas Eve, I was all 
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alone and my old heart was just 
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like a stone
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And I didn't want no one to bother
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 me
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My eyes were red, my lips were 
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blue, my cheeks were cold and 
shriveled too
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I was as mean as mean could ever be

[Verse 2]
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But look at all I'd come to own 
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those velvet walls, that golden 
throne
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I'd sit inside and hide my misery
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And the only friend that I could 
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claim is a pale old ghost who came 
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in chains
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To warn me of my ill-begotten fate

[Verse 3]
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He said he lived his life 
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regretfully, so full of fear and 
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full of greed
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And for him the chance to change 
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was much too late
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But he said that I was Ebenezer 
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Scrooge, that I still had some life 
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to lose
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and that maybe I should open up 
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the gate

[Verse 4]
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For spirits come from yesterday 
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and spirits come from yet to come
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He said follow them and do not 
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hesitate
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Then he hung his head and he 
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drifted away and he left me there 
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that winter day
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So I opened up my heart to have a 
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look

[Verse 5]
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And I saw all the way back to the 
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day my true love could no longer 
stay
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For I was just a miser and a crook
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And with her parting but a year 
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behind, I saw the life she went on 
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to find
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It was a picture-perfect story book

[Verse 6]
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And it made me cry as my buckles 
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shook, oh my oh I had found the hook
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I got outta there, that was all I 
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could take
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Then I looked out through the 
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frosted glass to see the world 
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that's yet to pass
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And return to my ignorance at once

[Verse 7]
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But on the snowy streets below I 
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saw children with no place to go
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Forgotten in the cold winter morn
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And it made me cry as my buckles 
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shook and once again I found the 
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hook
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I saw the world outside that I 
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denied

[Verse 8]
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And life was turning into dream, 
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my heart was bursting at the seams
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Bah humbug, I tried it but a lie
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Christmas Eve will soon be 
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Christmas morn and not before it's 
final warning
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The spirit of what's yet to come

[Verse 9]
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It showed me the funeral of a rich
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 old man who never shared or lent a 
hand
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And no one cared to say goodbye
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It showed me the funeral of a poor
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 young boy who lived a life of love 
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and joy
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And the whole town cried and cried

[Verse 10]
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Oh why oh why, oh me oh my, I'm 
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on my knees, I'm horrified
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To think of all the lies that I 
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believed
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For all my wealth and all my clout
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 there's so much I have gone without
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Forgive me, oh mercy me

[Verse 11]
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As sure as I am here to say, as 
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sure as this is Christmas day
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Redemption is my guarantee
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So I made my pledge and took my 
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place among the ones that live in 
grace
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With love and generosity

[Otro]
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For I am Ebenezer Scrooge, though
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 I am old, my day is new
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It's Christmas time and I'm free
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It's Christmas time and I'm free