Christmas Morning

Well the banks & the schools & the post office are closed

You can park where you please and you won't get towed

The streets are empty & the stores are finally closed

It's Christmas morning

He got a tie & she got a book

They weren't supposed to peek but they took a little look

Tell me how long will it take for the dinner to cook

It's Christmas morning

There are so many presents underneath the tree

A few are for you but the rest are all for me

And we gotta tip the super and the doormen

Can't you see, It's Christmas morning

Christmas morning finally has come

It has meaning for each & everyone

Christmas morning I cannot believe

Just last night was Christmas Eve

In the Rockerfeller Center the big tree is shining bright

Skaters skate beneath it in the winter light

Like a picture on a Christmas card everything looks right

On Christmas morning

And the homeless who have nothing will ask on

Christmas day, for us to give them something

God we wish they'd go away

Though there is no place for them to go

They have no place to stay on Christmas morning

Lying in a hospital dying in a bed with AIDS

"He deserved it", I have heard it said

Deck the halls iwth boughs of something

Soon he will be dead on Christmas morning

Christmas morning finally has come

It has meaning for each & everyone

Christmas morning I'm afraid to say

Life goes on, on Christmas morning

And the Prince of peace was born on a Christmas Day

In the little town of Bethlehem not so far away

From where a multitude has gathered in a warlike way

On Christmas morning

So we watch the buildup here we go again

There is sand, there are camels

But where are the wise men

Are they in Baghdad Are they in Washington

It's Christmas morning

There are those who go to church they kneel down to pray

For loved ones who have left to serve so far away

& for a Middle Eastern baby born on that very day

It's Christmas morning

Christmas morning finally has come

It has meaning for each & everyone

Christmas morning I'm afraid to think

This time we are headed to the brink

A week from today we begin a brand new year

Let us all be hopeful, men & women of good cheer

And resolve to fight against stupidity and fear

It's Christmas morning

And as awful as the world can be we are still alive

And if we're very careful we might well survive

There are cures & solutions & there is compromise

Christmas morning

Christmas is for children I have heard it said

That's why King Herod hated the babe in the manger bed

They all came to worship & adore the child instead