[NARRATION]



By this time a harder rocking stage 

Would be impossible to find 

And though no one was now drinking 

The owner did not seem to mind 



And the angel marveled how one man 

Could turn around a life 

And then that life turn around another's 

And how it rippled through this night 



But there was someone in that room 

Whose heart had not been changed 

A heart that had grown so hard 

You'd have thought it could never be arranged 



It was the businessman from downtown 

Who had stopped there to rest his feet 

And he clung to his drink 

(where he watched his thoughts sink) 

While any strangers, he refused to greet 



You could see upon his face 

How happiness had been so long deferred 

It was practically as if unhappiness 

Had somehow become preferred 



Now the angel had not seen the businessman 

Though they had in that room been near 

Nor did the angel see him as he left the bar 

When he could no longer stand this christmas cheer 



And as the businessman exited the door 

He heard someone complaining on the tv 

It was the "grinch" ranting against christmas 

And the man found that he agreed 



[WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?]



What is christmas? 

Tinseled fairytales 

Day old stockings lined up in a row 



What is christmas 

Could someone tell me that? 

What is christmas? 

Surely, i don't know 



And everywhere these lights 

Who needs to color night? 

Could this whole thing be planned? 

I do not understand 



This christmas 

Trees with colored lights 

Underneath they still are only trees 

Do you think that one day perhaps they might 

Find that christmas 

Is kind of a disease? 



Every year it's waiting for me 

Waiting for me 

Every year it constantly defies 

Placing strangers 

There before me 

There before me 

Spreading hope and cheer 

Mixed in with happiness 

Fraternal bliss and other christmas lies! 



And there's one more thing that i have discovered 

And i would now like you to know 

The reason for christmas i now realize 

Is an excuse to tolerate snow 

Snow! 

I don't even like the sound of it 

Anyway, where was i 

Oh, yes! 



What is christmas? 

Candles everywhere 

A fire hazard any other day 

Children light them 

No one seems to care 

All for christmas 



Every year it returns here 

And every year it's waiting for me 

Why can't christmas disappear 

And just pretend it never saw me 

Every year i get my hopes up 

That it will somehow just leave 

But every year i wake to find 

That once again it now is christmas eve