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Looking for good in a freaky world
Trying to find a way to make it work
Listening for angel songs tonight
Following the star to find the light
Trying to find the hope of Christmas time
Rolling my eyes at everything I hear
My head is spinning like this crazy sphere
Listening for angel songs tonight
Following the star to find the light
Trying to find the hope of Christmas time
Do you really want to celebrate this Christmas
Do you really want to party through the night
Do you really want to feast with joy and merriment
Let's party tonight
You're always frowning, everything's appalling
You're cynical and it's catching darling
You're drowning out the angel song tonight
I'm looking up at stars to follow right
We're gonna find the hope of Christmas time
Do you really want to celebrate this Christmas
Do you really want to party through the night
Do you really want to feast with joy and merriment
Let's party tonight
We're getting grumpy at a crumbling culture
We're sowing doubt and we're shrinking smaller
I'm listening for angel songs tonight
Following the star to find the light
Trying to find the hope of Christmas time
Do you really want to celebrate this Christmas
Do you really want to party through the night
Do you really want to feast with joy and merriment
Let's party tonight
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Peace on Earth
03:46
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Peace on earth, goodwill to everyone
Holy birth, see the messiah born
Glory to God in the highest
Peace on earth, goodwill to all
Noisy world, met with a silent night
Joy has come, the uncreated light
Shines in the dark, brings light to everything
Noisy world, made calm and bright
Heavenly peace shared now with all the world
Shepherd see, the angels spread the word
Glory to God in the highest
Heavenly peace shared with the world
I will treasure these things in my heart
I’ll worship the king
God robed in skin, as a brother, a friend
I will treasure these things in my heart
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Silent night, holy night
I will treasure these things in my heart
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Never Really Snows
02:29
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We're huddled up snug inside
With knitwear on and our winter hats
The heating is turned up high
Crossing our fingers for snow at last
The skies are grey and our cheeks are red
But the sledge is staying in the shed
The gritting truck is staying put
Because it never really snows at Christmas
The thermostat is where it's at
And the weather man's got other plans
Roads are icy, and the journey's dicey
But it never really snows at Christmas
Let's find a better place to go
Winter time with bucket loads of snow
You and I amid the scenes we know
From films and books and tv shows
We're cuddled up fireside
With slipper socks and a blanket
The curtains are shut up tight
But it never really snows at Christmas
Let's find a better place to go
Winter time with bucket loads of snow
You and I amid the scenes we know
From films and books and tv shows
The thermostat is where it's at
And the weather man's got other plans
Roads are icy, and the journey's dicey
But it never really snows at Christmas
We're huddled up snug inside
With knitwear on and our winter hats
The heating is turned up high
But it never really snows at Christmas
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Boxes From the Attic
03:39
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Lights will be tangled and the tinsel will be all in a knot
The baubles will be broken though they’ve spent the year alone in the loft
Candy canes ready for the tree and
Candle flames counting to the eve of
Christmas, so we need the decorations put up
Come home
Come back to the house
Drive straight through the town
Make it through the traffic cause the boxes from the attic are down
The neighbours are competing with the lights they’re putting out in the front
There’s no way that we’re keeping up but maybe do a wreath if you want
Mistletoe, we need to go pick it
And holly though your fingers they will be pricked
Evergreen is all that we need to spruce the house up a lot
Come home
Come back to the house
Drive straight through the town
Make it through the traffic cause the boxes from the attic are down
We’ll go out to get the tree from that place you say that you always liked
We’ll find the star to go on top, spend an hour checking the lights
Ornaments to go around the house and
All the ones we never dare to throw out
Arranging all the memories of Christmases since you were a child
Come home
Come back to the house
Drive straight through the town
Make it through the traffic cause the boxes from the attic are down
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Nowell, Nowell
04:12
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Falling and squalling and drifting through life, but a
Flurry in street lamp, a halo of light, sets me right again
Swirling through sky on a frozen night
One in million, crystal light, there’s a star in the ice
Nowell, nowell
Nowell, nowell
Midwinter is bleak but it’s holy as hell
Clouds cast their silvery spell on the land
Soundless and weightless, the snowflakes command you be still
Turning me into a child once again
Wide eyed and wonder-filled, wonder-filled son of the chill
Nowell, nowell
Nowell, nowell
Midwinter is bleak but it’s holy as hell
Look to the scene of the heaven-sent son
The glory revealed in the frailty, delicate wonder
It’s weak and it’s fine and it comes and it goes
Where beauty is transient, holiness holds, and it holds me close
Nowell, nowell
Nowell, nowell
Midwinter is bleak but it’s holy as hell
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Ohohoh Santa, ohoh Santa Claus
Santa’s coming round, he’s on his way
You can hear the bells a-jingling they are ringing on his sleigh
But I don’t know the man at all
He’s hardly here, he never calls
I don’t want your presents, no, I want your company
He’s in and out in seconds in the night
I know you’re under pressure darling but please just take the time
We put out snacks and brandy for you
Carrots too for reindeer but you
Barely touch them, barely linger, barely even try
It’s weird enough, you breaking in, so rest your feet and wag your chin Please just let me hear your thoughts, let me see the real Santa Claus
One by one, he’s breaking into houses, breaking hearts
Then he’s gone, leave me wondering who he’s seeing now
I don’t want your presents, I just want to see your face
So hang around a second and just settle in this place
You know I don’t feel so special, don’t know if you even care
We’ll go around and round and round and do this all again next year
Ohohoh Santa, ohoh Santa Claus
We’ve got all of the things we’ll ever need.
We don’t gifts in stockings or beneath the Christmas tree
We need to feel connected, need some decent quality time together
We need them, they need us, and even you need me
We’ve all got deadlines Santa don’t you see?
The sun is rising somewhere and you’ve some place to be
You’ve got to make an effort
and this Christmas let’s be better
I will open my heart and let you in if you let me
It’s weird enough, you breaking in, so rest your feet and wag your chin
The longer that this game continues the clearer your commitment issues
You come with gifts and never stay, I think you got hurt along the way Please just trust me with your thoughts, let me in to see the real Santa Claus
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Candle Flame
04:24
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Candle flame is burning while the cruel world keeps turning
You know peace has come at Christmas though it doesn’t feel that way
A flickering of light is for the longest of the nights
As winter solstice beckons Christmas the nights seem set to drag
You know I will hope this Christmas
As the light has dawned
Though the shadows seem to creep and the wound of the world is deep
You know it from the inside out, you know it, O Emmanuel
The fire should be roaring but it feels like just an ember
The twinkling of Christmas lights is nothing but vain fun
The holy night, the silent light was always a humble venture
It’s small but strong and one the darkness cannot overcome
You know I will hope this Christmas
As the light has dawned
Though the shadows seem to creep and the wound of the world is deep
You know it from the inside out, you know it, O Emmanuel
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Long Hard Winter
03:48
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Creaking through snow for an evening
Wrapped up while the world is wearing white
Breathing hard as human warmth is leaving
Time to call my spirit to the fight
It has been a long hard winter
The ice creeps into the heart
Thaw my spirit, O rekindle
I’m fire-starting in the heart
Naked branches brittle in the moonlight
Cloudless night, my breath is in the air
The wind and I are howling through the clear sky
With the trees, my teeth and soul are bare
It has been a long hard winter
The ice creeps into the heart
Thaw my spirit, O rekindle
I’m fire-starting in the heart
Thaw my soul
Thaw my soul
Shooting star is all I’ve got to guide me
Burning out but lighting up the sky
A flash of hope, a wish as quick as lightning
The whole damn night is aching for a sign
It has been a long hard winter
The ice creeps into the heart
Thaw my spirit, O rekindle
I’m fire-starting in the heart
Thaw my soul
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Worship and Adore
04:57
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Come adore the Lord of glory, in a stable born
Worship him, the King of kings; in humble human form
He’s the Lord of all
Lord of all
He alone is Lord, enthroned in vulnerability
Incarnated he relates to our humanity
He’s the Lord of all
Lord of all
I will worship and adore you, honour and restore you to your rightful place in my heart,
I will lift your name up, I will sing your praise and hold you in that rightful place in my heart
Peace on earth and mercy mild, praise to the newborn King
God and sinners reconciled. The herald angels sing:
He’s the Lord of all
Lord of all
I will worship and adore you, honour and restore you to your rightful place in my heart,
I will lift your name up, I will sing your praise and hold you in that rightful place in my heart
Lord of glory
You’re the only
One that I will
Glorify
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Heaven and Nature Sing
03:38
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Oh heaven and nature sing,
Oh heaven and nature sing,
Oh heaven and heaven and nature sing.
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord
Now with the woes of sin and strife
We see the world has suffered long,
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The peaceful love song which they bring:
O hush the noise, you men of strife,
And hear the angels sing!
The wonders of his love
The wonders of his love
The wonders, the wonders of his love
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord
All you, beneath life's crushing load,
And you Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look, now! for glad and golden hours
Come on now swiftly on the wing:
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
O tidings of comfort and joy
Now to the Lord sing praises
All those of us found in this place
And with true love and harmony
Each other now embrace
God rest you merry gentlemen
Don’t let this mad world you dismay
For Jesus Christ our saviour
Was born upon this day
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
O come let us adore him
Christ the Lord
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11. |
I Will be There
04:17
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12. |
Herod Antipas
01:48
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Anybody tired of the baby Jesus?
He’s meek and mild when he should be screaming
If no crying he makes, then he’s got to be a fake
And that night would be anything, anything but silent mate
Let’s make some noise this Christmas
There’s something here to shout about
And not avoid the friction
The old regime freaking, freaking out
Power takes you ‘cause it’s poison
So humble yourself or he’ll do it for you
Throwing over thrones and scaring the rulers
The last will be first and the first are trying to fool us
Let’s make some noise this Christmas
There’s something here to shout about
And not avoid the friction
The old regime freaking, freaking out
There’s a new world order
The old one ought to
Check their conscience for any violence
‘cause Christmas always went with the slaughter of the innocents
Let’s make some noise this Christmas
There’s something here to shout about
And not avoid the friction
The old regime freaking, freaking out
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