This is a psuedo-autobiographical story imagining what I'd have to say to my daughter if I wasn't going to be home on Christmas Day. It's a little different than my usual music style, but I felt it that it really worked with the lyrics and helped to paint the bleak picture of the story I was telling. I imagine this goes on more often than we want to think, so I wanted to say something that maybe the dad's in jail don't get a chance to say, even though they're thinking it.
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