What Is Christmas? - Vocals Up Mix

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