What Is Christmas

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What is christmas?
Tinseled fairytales
Day old stockings lined up in a row
What is christmas
Could someone tell me that?
What is christmas?
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Surely, I don't know
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And everywhere these lights
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Who needs to color night?
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Could this whole thing be planned?
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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?
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Every year it's waiting for me
Continues after the ad
Waiting for me
Every year it constantly defies
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Placing strangers
There before me
There before me
Spreading hope and cheer
Mixed in with happiness
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Fraternal bliss and other christmas lies!
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And there's one more thing that I have discovered
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That I would now like you to know
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The reason for christmas I now realize
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Is an excuse to tolerate snow
Snow!
I don't even like the sound of it
Anyway, where was I
Oh, yes!
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What is christmas?
Candles everywhere
A fire hazard any other day
Children light them
No one seems to care
All for christmas
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Every year it returns here
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And every year it's waiting for me
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Why can't christmas disappear
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And just pretend it never saw me
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Every year I get my hopes up
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That it will somehow just leave
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But every year I wake to find
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That once again it now is christmas eve