The Christmas E​.​P.

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1. Christmastime (Is A Time To Be Polite)
2. Carousels
3. Hope Springs (Swinging at the Gallows acoustic live version)
4. Christmastime (Is A Time To Be Polite) - Karaoke Version

The forth release in ButterflyPolite's year of monthly singles. Special Xmas Bumper Edition.

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released 22 December 2009
words and music A.Jenkinson

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tags: acoustic baroque pop folk pop Leicester

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Track Name: Christmastime (Is A Time To Be Polite)
Is this all there is
On your Christmas list?
Is this all you wish for
A Christmas Kiss?
Is this all there is
On your Christmas list?

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.

Perhaps you'd have me wrapped
As a Christmas gift
Me beneath the tree
A merry mistletoe kiss
I see that you believe
In a Christmas wish

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.

Streets are virgin white
Tippexed over night
Covered up mistakes
Adrift is all it takes
A thank you note and fresh start
Should warm us to the heart
Or so I'm told
But all I feel is cold

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.
Track Name: Carousels
Ride at a fairground
Act surprised as your insides have fallen away

Waltzers are dancing
Leaving you gasping and clawing for air
What's fun about unfair?

Stores offer prizes
Rigged from the outset
With no way to claim

Fortunes are lost
Lost on unfortunate gods of a ring toss that's fixed from the start
And breaks children's hearts

Carousels go around and up and down
Where horses rise and fall again and
Roll up roll up roll up...

Carousels go around and up and down
So rise merrily around

Wrapped up in plastic
Clasped in a child's fist
Last 'til forgotten
Spun out of control
Track Name: Hope Springs (New Acoustic Version)
At Hope Springs
Where love brings everything
Down to the ground
At Hope Springs
We'll take a sip be reborn or drown

Do we really keep pretending
We're in for a happy ending
When we've only just begun
like The Carpenters sung long ago
What do they know
(Truth hurts)
I'm letting go
(Made worse)
And I wanna show...

That Hope Springs
Where love brings everything
Down to the ground
At Hope Springs
We'll take a sip be reborn or drown

Close both your eyes
A surprise is beginning
See how the planets begin to stop spinning
Stars behind eyes stay frozen in patterns
Constant constellations
Where nothing else matters

Do you think you still adore me
Now I make me kneel before me
And I see by your eyes you realise
Oh please don't cry
It's only love that's died

At Hope Springs
Where love brings everything
Down to the ground
At Hope Springs
We'll take a sip be reborn or drown
Track Name: Christmastime (Is A Time To Be Polite) (Karaoke Version)
Is this all there is
On your Christmas list?
Is this all you wish for
A Christmas Kiss?
Is this all there is
On your Christmas list?

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.

Perhaps you'd have me wrapped
As a Christmas gift
Me beneath the tree
A merry mistletoe kiss
I see that you believe
In a Christmas wish

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.

Streets are virgin white
Tippexed over night
Covered up mistakes
Adrift is all it takes
A thank you note and fresh start
Should warm us to the heart
Or so I'm told
But all I feel is cold

How can I say 'no'
When you ask me politely
How can I say 'no'
When you put it so nicely
How can I say 'no'
Although I know it's not right
Christmastime is a time to be polite.