Christmastime

Once again, it's that wonderful Christmastime
And all the bells in that whole white world will chime

Chiming for peace
Chiming for love
Chiming for human kindness

And it's dragging us down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
Down on the slime and dirt on the ground
Till we suffocate

And everyone's smiling and laughing
Giving each other piles of trash
At Christmastime

A mother is dying
A child is crying
The streets are cold
And they never get warmer
At Christmastime

Poor old man's got nothing to eat
Nothing
Nothing but empty streets
At Christmastime

So many people die in pain
In prison cells, no numbers, no names
At Christmastime

Young and naive, he's making a living
Selling and buying nothing at all
The price goes down and he's done with it all
He puts his gun to his head
It's Christmastime!

We shut out eyes and we shut our ears
The time goes on and we punish the ones who care
And criminalize the ones who dare
To break the unbreakable silence
It's not what it seems as we build our walls of hypocrisy

And it's dragging us down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
Down on the slime and dirt on the ground
Till we suffocate