Merry Christmas Happy holiday
But don't send me any gifts
Your absence is a present
You can give me all year
Happy happy New Year…
Ring a bell, but don't call
And don't write because
Your absence is the biggest present
You've happened to give me this life
Don't stop! Give me being gone all year!

Have a good birthday but Tell your friends
That we don't talk And never will,
not when your absence Means safety
Not when the way you care hurts

You have the happiest holidays
Every single one that you choose to celebrate
And be glad for I am so very happy
And it's not just you I cast off But an entire world too
I finally made it to the mountain Where I'm alone being listened to By really who cares

I never wrote for anyone
But the swift stroke of my hand
The joy of God’s rhyme and the dance of it
And I can only imagine it would be very annoying
To Anyone not like me
Eventually under the right abusive circumstances
Turning into extremely low return on investment
Relationships with people called family

So go on then and stop with any attempts
I accept from many zero presents
Except just one: absence
One of the greatest gifts you can give me
Someday I pray you might meet me there
ahead of the curve, past being mean
Til then your absence is the best gift you can give
Don't stop! Give me being gone all year!

Living with the gift of memory like I do
It's easy to avoid thinking about what I can't change
Particularly if I don't run into the same
Every time I've tried to explain this,
you've hung up But maybe if I sing it?

Your absence is the best gift
You've ever ever given me
Don't stop and give me being gone all year
Remember: your absence is a present
And you can give it all year

You have the happiest life without me hear?
You’ve already delivered me your gift this year
Whereas too many others still tripping
You're good, and you know what?
Don’t stop and give me being gone all year