Off Topic: A Christmas Song
Christmas by Blues Traveler
This is one of those totally off-topic posts that has nothing to do with porn. Forgive me if that’s not something you want to read. Skip over this one. I’ll get back to the porn directly.
I’m one of those people who really enjoys Christmas music. Every year after Thanksgiving I break out the dozen or so Christmas CDs I have and play them pretty much all day until New Year’s Day. The music always puts me in the mood for the holiday season and it reminds me of my grandmother. Christmas was always a big deal at her house and like me she loves Christmas music. Unlike me, she could sing beautifully and always filled her home with music. I miss her a great deal, especially around the holidays, but I try very hard to keep her spirit alive in how we celebrate. (With the music, love and sharing, not by signing. That would ruin it all.)
Anyway, that was a bit of a tangent. Where I was originally headed in a different direction. During this holiday season I was listening to the Christmas music and came across “Christmas” by Blues Traveler. I’ve always loved the song, but for some reason this year it really rung true to me. It has been a pretty rough year for a lot of people. I had my own ups and downs just like everyone and had a little trouble getting into the spirit of the season. By the time this song made its way around the rotation a few times it started to hit me. The line about harvesting love among our woes really reminded me of what I love about the season and one of the many lessons my grandmother taught me as a kid. That each of us has a hundred chances every day to make something around us better for someone else and that while we rarely have a chance to do something grand, we can make a difference. Anyway this is getting way too sappy, but it was on my mind as I wrote my holiday greetings. So to borrow a line, ” Christmas can mean anything
And i mean to keep its hope forever near.
Christmas
Comes the time for christmas
And i really have to ask
If this is feeling merry
How much longer must it last
I wish a one horse open sleigh
Would come carry me away
But i’ve been waiting here all day
And one just hasn’t come my way
Now excuse me if i’m not being reverent
But i was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
Save me from my righteous doubt as i watch helpless
And everybody sings
If it’s chanukah or kwanza
Solstice, harvest or december twenty-fifth
Peace on earth to everyone
And abundance to everyone you’re with
Laha da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da
La da da da da da da da
La da da da da da da da da
Laha da da da da
Laha da da da da
Comes the time for christmas
And as you raise your yuletide flask
There’s like this feeling that you carry
As if from every christmas past
It’s as if each year it grows
It’s like you feel it in your toes
And on and on your carol goes
Harvesting love among your woes
I want to buy into the benevolent
And i was hoping for a miracle to hold me, wash me
Make me know what it’s about
As the longing in me makes me want to sing
Noel or navidad
Season celebration or just the end of the year
Christmas can mean anything
And i mean to keep its hope forever near
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
By loves own hand
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
And good will to man
At twenty below the winter storm it billows
But the fire is so warm inside
And the children while nestled in their pillows
Dream of st. nicholas’s ride
And how the next day they’ll get up and they will play
In the still falling christmas snow
And together we’ll celebrate forever
In defiance of the winds that blow
My god in heaven now i feel like i’m seven
And spirit calls to me as well
As if christmas had made the winter warmer
Made a paradise from what was hell
As if a cold and frozen soul is warm to love
By loves own hand
So goes the prayer if for a day peace on earth
And good will to man…….
I wish a one horse open sleigh would come carry me away And i’ll keep waiting through next may
Until christmas comes my way
