[NARRATION]    By this time a harder rocking stage   Would be impossible to find   And though no one was now drinking   The owner did not seem to mind     And the angel marveled how one man   Could turn around a life   And then that life turn around another's   And how it rippled 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 could never be arranged     It was the businessman from downtown   Who had stopped there to rest his feet   And he clung to his drink   (where he watched his thoughts sink)   While any strangers, he refused to greet     You could see upon his face   How happiness had been so long deferred   It was practically as if unhappiness   Had somehow become preferred     Now the angel had not seen the businessman   Though they had in that room been near   Nor did the angel see him as he left the bar   When he could no longer stand this christmas cheer     And as the businessman exited the door   He heard someone complaining on the tv   It was the "grinch" ranting against christmas   And the man found that he agreed     [WHAT IS CHRISTMAS?]    What is christmas?   Tinseled fairytales   Day old stockings lined up in a row     What is christmas   Could someone tell me that?   What is christmas?   Surely, i don't know     And everywhere these lights   Who needs to color night?   Could this whole thing be planned?   I do not understand     This christmas   Trees with colored lights   Underneath they still are only 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 constantly defies   Placing strangers   There before me   There before me   Spreading hope and cheer   Mixed in with happiness   Fraternal bliss and other christmas lies!     And there's one more thing that i have discovered   And i would now like you to know   The reason for christmas i now realize   Is an excuse to tolerate snow   Snow!   I don't even like the sound of it   Anyway, where was i   Oh, yes!     What is christmas?   Candles everywhere   A fire hazard any other day   Children light them   No one seems to care   All 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 will somehow just leave   But every year i wake to find   That once again it now is christmas eve