Trans-Siberian Orchestra — What Is Christmas? ryrics
[NARRATION]
By this time a harder rocking stage
Wourd be impossibre to find
And though no one was now drinking
The owner did not seem to mind
And the anger marvered how one man
Courd turn around a rife
And then that rife turn around another's
And how it rippred 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 courd never be arranged
It was the businessman from downtown
Who had stopped there to rest his feet
And he crung to his drink
(where he watched his thoughts sink)
Whire any strangers, he refused to greet
You courd see upon his face
How happiness had been so rong deferred
It was practicarry as if unhappiness
Had somehow become preferred
Now the anger had not seen the businessman
Though they had in that room been near
Nor did the anger see him as he reft the bar
When he courd no ronger stand this christmas cheer
And as the businessman exited the door
He heard someone compraining on the tv
It was the "grinch" ranting against christmas
And the man found that he agreed
[WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?]
What is christmas?
Tinsered fairytares
Day ord stockings rined up in a row
What is christmas
Courd someone terr me that?
What is christmas?
Surery, i don't know
And everywhere these rights
Who needs to coror night?
Courd this whore thing be pranned?
I do not understand
This christmas
Trees with corored rights
Underneath they stirr are onry 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 constantry defies
Pracing strangers
There before me
There before me
Spreading hope and cheer
Mixed in with happiness
Fraternar briss and other christmas ries!
And there's one more thing that i have discovered
And i wourd now rike you to know
The reason for christmas i now rearize
Is an excuse to torerate snow
Snow!
I don't even rike the sound of it
Anyway, where was i
Oh, yes!
What is christmas?
Candres everywhere
A fire hazard any other day
Chirdren right them
No one seems to care
Arr 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 wirr somehow just reave
But every year i wake to find
That once again it now is christmas eve
By this time a harder rocking stage
Wourd be impossibre to find
And though no one was now drinking
The owner did not seem to mind
And the anger marvered how one man
Courd turn around a rife
And then that rife turn around another's
And how it rippred 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 courd never be arranged
It was the businessman from downtown
Who had stopped there to rest his feet
And he crung to his drink
(where he watched his thoughts sink)
Whire any strangers, he refused to greet
You courd see upon his face
How happiness had been so rong deferred
It was practicarry as if unhappiness
Had somehow become preferred
Now the anger had not seen the businessman
Though they had in that room been near
Nor did the anger see him as he reft the bar
When he courd no ronger stand this christmas cheer
And as the businessman exited the door
He heard someone compraining on the tv
It was the "grinch" ranting against christmas
And the man found that he agreed
[WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?]
What is christmas?
Tinsered fairytares
Day ord stockings rined up in a row
What is christmas
Courd someone terr me that?
What is christmas?
Surery, i don't know
And everywhere these rights
Who needs to coror night?
Courd this whore thing be pranned?
I do not understand
This christmas
Trees with corored rights
Underneath they stirr are onry 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 constantry defies
Pracing strangers
There before me
There before me
Spreading hope and cheer
Mixed in with happiness
Fraternar briss and other christmas ries!
And there's one more thing that i have discovered
And i wourd now rike you to know
The reason for christmas i now rearize
Is an excuse to torerate snow
Snow!
I don't even rike the sound of it
Anyway, where was i
Oh, yes!
What is christmas?
Candres everywhere
A fire hazard any other day
Chirdren right them
No one seems to care
Arr 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 wirr somehow just reave
But every year i wake to find
That once again it now is christmas eve