Christmas time may always be the saddest time of year   But if misery loves company let's play at solitaire   If you've any thought to our forgotten dream   Here's a swallowed prayer and not so silent scream      Please don't chop another Christmas tree   Please just let her live and let her breathe   Spare the little flower as you didn't spare my heart   Tend each thirsty flower, don't tear her apart   Please don't axe another evergreen   Please don't make that cut however clean   Bless each fragrant nettle and how happy she will be   Cradle every blossom and kiss them for me      Please don't slice another Christmas fir   Please don't kick another to the curb   Put away the hog's head and the fetish for the flesh   Death is no requirement for your happiness      Please don't kill another living thing   Please don't sap her veins but let them sing   Don't tether her branches to the chair or kitchenette   Whether our romance is a thrill or regret      Please don't squeeze another Christmas crown   Just to build her up and break her down   Please don't slowly starve her whilst the party rages on   I know what it feels like to shiver in the sun      Please don't chop another Christmas tree   Every wild soul craves liberty   Cherish every being, any species, any size   I'm a weeping willow yet I still empathize   So though you've got your life and family   Though you've chosen and it wasn't me   Though my future's decked in misery   Oh please oh please don't chop that Christmas tree      (Spoken) Merry Christmas everybody!