Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song What Is Christmas? , by - Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Release date: 11.10.2004
Song language: English
What Is Christmas? |
| 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? |
| 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 |