Lyrics

[DwithG]               [G/B]
I won't be home for xmas
[C]                 [Gm/Bb]         [A7]
it's just not possible this year
[Dm9]            [G7]
I'm already traveling
[C]   [Dm7]     [C/E]   [Cdim/Eb]
at 10% of light speed
[Dm7]        [G7]
and I'm already aging
[C]      [BbM7#11]   [A7]
much slower from your point of view

[Dm9]            [G7]
By the time I would return
[C]                 [Gm/Bb]         [A7]
I'd be your junior by about 10 years
[Dm9]            [G7]
10 xmases apart
[C]                    [A7+9]
it would add up to a lot of presents

[DwithG]               [G/B]
I won't be home for xmas
[C]                 [Gm/Bb]         [A7]
Don't think I'll ever come again
[Dm9]            [G7]
The place I'm going 
[C]   [Dm7]     [C/E]   [Cdim/Eb]
doesn't have a yearly cycle
[Dm9]            [C#M7]
it's just a perpetual twilight

[Dm9]            [G7]
On the bridge I have a picture
[Cmaj7]          [Am7]
it's all of us in front of the tree
[Dm9]            [G11]
I won't touch another for the rest of my life
[Cmaj7]          [A7+9]
All I have is moss and algae

[DwithG]               [G/B]
I won't be home for xmas
[C]         [Gm/Bb]     [A7]
Not in my old physical form
[Dm9]            [G7]
You know me as a human being
[C]   [Dm7]     [C/E]   [Cdim/Eb]
but I will be so much more

[Fm9]                [Bb11]
It's a strange world, strange without the math
[Ebmaj7]       [C#7]     [C7+9]
Try to let go of the things you never had
[Fm9]            [Bb11]   [G/B]
Accept that we're going at relativistic speeds
[Cmaj7]     [Gm/Bb]            [A7]
we're incompatible in the most fundamental ways
[Dm9]            [G7]
[Cmaj7]         [A7+9]

[solo on verse 1]
[DwithG]               [G/B]
[C]                 [Gm/Bb]         [A7]
[Dm9]            [G7]
[C]   [Dm7]     [C/E]   [Cdim/Eb]
[Dm9]            [G7]
[Cmaj7]          [A7+9]
[...ad lib...]

[DwithG]               [G/B]
I won't be home for xmas
[C]         [Gm/Bb]     [A7]
it’s not the same thing anymore
[Dm9]            [G7]
I'm already traveling
[C]   [Dm7]     [C/E]   [Cdim/Eb]
at 10% of light speed
[Dm7]        [G7]                  [Cmaj7]  [Gm/Bb]   [A7]
I've already spent my best years back home
[Dm9]            [G7]
Look for me in the stars
[C#M7]  
[Cmaj7]