Positive Christmas energy, desperately
Seeking Santa, take 3

Once in a while
You may think you see better than the others
Scrambling around in the dark with your drum
There is a time when young men
Must grow up and be brothers
Are you afraid of growing too fast?

And the child with the star on his head
All of the world rests on his shoulders
And the mother with the child on her breast
Blessed is she among women

And the trust we put in things
In small ideas, in engineering
The world of sports and second best
In consequences we will not put to rest

Why crawl around in the snow
When you know I am right here
Waiting for you to expect something more?

For I am warm
I am calling you close to my table
Where I have made us a feast
For the year of troubles, they have gone
The winter brings a Christmas song

And the child with the star on his head
All of the world rests on his shoulders
And the mother with the child on her breast
Blessed is she among women

Does all the world know better than
When Christmas comes the troubles end
The troubles end, the troubles end

And by the time there’s nothing left
An empty tree, a winter vest
A winter vest, a winter vest

And all the trust we put in things
In dictionaries, in engineering
In calendars, and television
In father's friends, in consequences


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    This song is so epic. One of his best Christmas ones yet, and so frightfully deliciously long. I read the lyrics one over and it resonated with me about how Christmas should be a time of rest of a timeout from the various garbage we think we need in our lives, like engineering, dictionaries, even calendars. The child-mother references seem pretty obvious Jesus and Mary to me (someone can, and will attempt to dispute that; fine). LAst year I thought about giving on Christmas, cause after peeling away the layers of materialism and fake Christmas trees and mall tramplings, what was left? How do you celebrate a little boy's birthday if they're not longer in the flesh? This year, I've been realizing that salvation was born; an escape from the trappings of eye-for-an-eye, competitive pricing, material addiction, social "norms," blaming your boring life on the government, etc. Like Sufjan, I still believe Christmas is a time to get away from it all.

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