"Won't Be Home For Christmas" lyrics

Wait until the kids are sleeping
Don't want them to hear me leaving
I'll send a letter to the lawyers
I'm going to make this easy for you

But yet again
(Yet again, yet again, yet again)
Looks like I won't be home for Christmas
And yet again
(Yet again, yet again, yet again)
My bags are packed
It's late December
And another year has slipped away
Another lonely Christmas Day

I'll set a course for California
And try my very best not to call you
This year I'll escape the winter
Make a new start, break a new heart

But yet again
(Yet again, yet again, yet again)
Looks like I won't be home for Christmas
And yet again
(Yet again, yet again, yet again)
There's a thousand miles between us
And another year that's seen us
Throw it all away, one we won't get back again
Another lonely Christmas Day