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California Christmas
04:34
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Welcome to my California Christmas
Christmas lights on all the fake palm trees
The only snow that falls
Is the fake stuff at the mall
Bathing suits in 85 degrees
Welcome to my California Christmas
The skies are blue, the sun is warm and bright
Santa Clause makes the drive
Stuck in traffic on the 5
It’s a California Christmas Eve
Cho:
Grab a Christmas Tree
I’ll meet you down the beach
Plant your mistletoes in the sand right next to me
Cause that pacific breeze
Gonna set you free
I’ll be wishing you a
California, California
V2
Welcome to my California Christmas
The avocado groves and graffiti kings
The gremmies fight for waves
As the sunset melts away
garage rock evenings filled with broken strings
Cho:
Jingle all the way
From out in east LA
Down the coast in your
Camero Christmas sleigh
So Ring the Christmas bell
Down at the hotel del
I’ll be wishing you a
California, California Christmas
Put up a tree at your favorite beach
With a smoothie
Throw your board in the car
In case there’s a Christmas swell
They’ll be blue skies and sunshine and seagulls and maybe jacuzzis
strike up the band, toes in the sand, ringing the Christmas bells
BGVs:
Santa hat and shades are so passé (cliche)
What a Californian thing to say
dia de Los Reyes
To the Pasadena rose parade
The best of west coast seasonal cliches
(Nutcracker ballets)
Throw your Christmas tree
On your suv
Plant your mistletoes in sand down at the beach
Hang your Christmas lights
Make the season bright
I’ll be wishing you a
California, California
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2. |
Looking For Christmas
04:12
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V1
There’s a man near the freeway on-ramp
And the sign says he’s looking for change
The lives we lead as strangers
Make the whole world feel so strange
I give him couple green pieces of paper
Ex-presidents faces and names
And he asks me whether cash could ever bring change
Pre: 1
And all the carols in my ear
Feel disturbingly inept and insincere
Cho:
I’m still looking for Christmas
Tell me what Christmas means
Tell me what’s the worth
Singing peace on earth
When there’s war on the TV screen?
I’m still looking for Christmas
I get the feeling that I’m on my own
Is there a Christmas star
To show me where you are?
Because the Wiseman all forgot the way home
V2
Well it’s halfway through December
The end of a long weird year
As far back as I can remember
The tension never felt this clear
Is this what my parents felt like?
Drinking bitter and sweet in a cup
Maybe this is what it feels like to grow up?
Pre 2:
And the carols are still the same
But my ears are hearing different, somethings changed
Cho2
I’m still looking for Christmas
Tell me how does Christmas work?
With our flags unfurled
Singing joy to the world
When there’s so much pain and hurt
I’m still looking for Christmas
I get the feeling that I’m on my own
Is there a Christmas star
That could show me the way home
I hear those Christmas bells ringing
But I want more than just your shopping malls and carol singing
Cho 3
I’m still looking for Christmas
Peace on earth could come and start right here
I want something real
More than just a feels
It’s been a long and lonely year
I’m still looking for Christmas
I get the feeling that I’m on my own
Is there a Christmas star
To show me where you are
Because the Wiseman all forgot the way home
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Christmas Time Is Here
02:45
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Christmas time is here
Happiness and cheer
Fun for all that children call
Their favorite time of year
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Snowflakes in the air
Carols everywhere
Olden times and ancient rhymes
Of love and dreams to share
Christmas time is here
We'll be drawing near
Oh, that we could always see
Such spirit through the year
Sleigh bells in the air
Beauty everywhere
Yuletide by the fireside
And joyful memories there
Christmas time is here
Christmas time is here
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When I was just a kid
I had no money at all
I didn’t have the extra quid
To spend for decking the halls
So the only little pine
For my family and me
Was a schmappy crappy Christmas tree
Then I got a little older
And I got me some dough
So I went down to buy a tree
But it was covered with snow
couldn’t tell until it melted
There on Christmas Eve
It was a schmappy crappy Christmas tree
It’s getting late at the Christmas tree lot
And the trees worth the getting are already got
There’s a runt in the corner sitting all alone
Hey momma, Maybe we could give him a home?
So I finally got a tree
A little taller than me
I ain’t hatin’ decoratin’
But you wouldn’t believe
That I was dreaming
bout simple the way it used to be
With a schmappy crappy Christmas tree
Solo
There ain’t no correlation with
The size of the gift
And the happiness you’re feeling near
The ones that you’re with
When you’re kissing, reminiscing,
sitting happy beneath
Any schmappy crappy Christmas tree
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Silent night, holy night.
All is calm, all is bright.
'Round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant so tender and mild.
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
'Peace on the earth, good will to men,'
From heav'n's all-gracious King.
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing!
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
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 love song which they bring:
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing!
Still thro' the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurl'd;
And still their heav'nly music floats
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hov'ring wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
All ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look, now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing:
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
For lo! the days are hast'ning on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing!
Silent night, holy night.
Shepherds quake at the sight.
Glorious strains from Heaven afar
Heavenly Hosts sing alleluia.
Christ the Saviour is born,
Christ the Saviour is born.
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I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along th' unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men."
Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
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7. |
Midlife Christmas
03:25
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The Christmas wreath is on the door way and the garlands on the wall
Baby Jesus in the manger, Santa‘s cookies down the hall
But the hollow in my chest doesn’t feel like Christmas time at all
Welcome to my midlife Christmas
The grinch and Max out on the lawn inflated proud and tall
And the relatives come knocking with a postcard on the wall
But it feels like all of these traditions were just built to fail and fall
Welcome to my midlife Christmas
Let it snow
Let it snow man
Letting go of past defense I’ve been holding
Holding
Unavoidable and tragic
Like Christmas Muzak at the mall
I keep looking for the magic
But these feelings don’t resolve
And the grey skies overhead are
Disillusioned and appalled
Welcome to my midlife Christmas
Solo
Moonlight fighting headlights
I’m still trying to drive it home
Feeling older but not wiser
Feeling lonely not alone
There’s a puzzle piece thats missing
Is it innocence outgrown
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Everybody Knows...A Turkey!
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The Christmas Song
03:57
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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Help to make the seasons bright
Little tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
Will find it hard to sleep tonight
They know that Santa is on his way
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
From kids from one to ninety-two
Although it's been said many times, many ways
"Merry Christmas to you"
Santa is on his way
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
And every mother's child is gonna spy
To see if reindeer really know how to fly
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
From kids from one to ninety-two
Although it's been said many times, many ways
"Merry Christmas to you"
(Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas)
Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you
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10. |
New Year's Day
03:34
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They tell me the best in life is free
And I feel spent so I guess it means that the best is mine
But it doesn’t seem so
While I’m out here confessing things
All last year got the best of me
And I’m not sure I’m ready for another go
It’s New Year’s Day
Euphoria’s gone, it’s time to move on
I have to believe we can change
When the notes come out wrong
Stop singing along
We can’t be the same old thing
It’s New Year’s Day
I’m tearing down the past years off the wall (it’s New Year’s Day)
I’m coming at you like a wrecking ball (it’s New Year’s Day)
And I think I’m gonna make it after all
It’s New Year’s Day
I said sometimes I can’t stand myself
And most times I wish I could be anyone else
When I look in the mirror my eyes are getting old
And she said yeah I see your point of view
But it could be just a phase that you’re going through
And it feels like we could make something beautiful
It’s New Year’s Day
I’m tearing down the past years off the wall (it’s New Year’s Day)
I’m coming at you like a wrecking ball (it’s New Year’s Day)
And I think I’m gonna make it after all
It’s New Year’s Day
Euphoria’s gone, it’s time to move on
I have to believe we can change
When the notes come out wrong
Stop singing along
We can’t be the same old thing
It’s New Year’s Day
I’m tearing down the past years off the wall (it’s New Year’s Day)
I’m coming at you like a wrecking ball (it’s New Year’s Day)
And I think I’m gonna make it after all
Yeah I think we’re gonna make it after all
And I think I’m gonna make it after all
It’s New Year’s Day
I think we’re gonna make it after all (it’s gonna be okay)
Yeah I think we’re gonna make it after all (it’s gonna okay)
Yeah I think we’re gonna make it after all
It’s New Year’s Day
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O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight
For Christ is born of Mary
And, gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wond'ring love
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth
And praise to sing to God the King
And peace to mend all earth
O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born to us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
O come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Immanuel!
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Switchfoot San Diego, California
SWITCHFOOT is a Grammy award-winning rock band from San Diego, CA.
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