Christmas in July - Leo Sayer

Well I’m half a mile from Canberra

Where it snowed for fifteen minutes

Now it’s gone

I could put my stocking on the tree

Suspending all belief

But I know that’s wrong

So very wrong

'Cos it’s Christmas in July

And my extraordinary life is still on song

A lot going on

I’ve released my inner Santa

And he’s dancing with the 'roos by the billabong

In a sarong

We’re eight thousand miles from Reykjavik

Where snow is falling thick

And I miss my boo

I don’t know what to do

So I stare back at a reindeer

Through a glass wall

In the old Taronga zoo

And I think of you

'Cos it’s Christmas in July

And this extraordinary guy

Who’s aim was true

But he missed his cue

Is dreaming of a cold white night

Where everything

Could be put right

Tonight

For me and you, ah yeah

I’m driving out in this nowhere zone

To find some place, somewhere warm to go

'Cos it’s so damn cold

Soon everything could be put right

My lonely snow-cone world

Would be shut tight

Without a fight

And I’ll see Santa landing on the roof

A lone star in the sky

To serve as proof

Oh ain’t that the truth?

But it’s Christmas in July

And my extraordinary life’s all black and white

Out here tonight

And there must have been an oversight

No blinking of a warning light

Tonight

And that ain’t right

So it’s Christmas all alone

I’m in a place that I can’t really call my home

And my cover’s blown

And I’m a million light years

Out of place

Dreaming of a time so far away

So far from home

And I’m all alone