A New Christmas (Long) (Vocal edit)

Uh oh uh oh It's Christmas time, it's the time of the year Slow down time, connection time And letting the pent up steam out time .. And switch to being a Santa Clause time Prezzies are good, and so is food The lights and the stockings are all so good I don't care if it's a plastic tree And I don't care if there aren't chimneys any more But the real magic is to spare a thought For whom fun is a distant word Running from wars, fires in the sky Food from trucks or dropped from the air Santa doesn't go everywhere So many places off-limits for reindeers It's time to be Santas ourselves In thought and in our tiny acts Being kind, raise a voice or rising up It should be Christmas everyday When we look at its meaning How it came to be in first place Bringing joy and cheer to one and all Beyond borders, far and near Beyond religion, and politics too Words of peace and hope for everyone Lets move beyond the meaningless fun What are we celebrating after all ? Lets pause to think .. It's Christmas time, it's the time of the year Slow down time, connection time And letting the pent up steam out time .. And switch to being a Santa Clause time All around us there is so much wrong So much hatred, divisions and shattered glass Waiting for heroes and Santas is in vain Unless we spread the message ourselves Simple thoughts have always powered the winds of change Raising voices of awareness of whats good The true Christmas spirit buried in the sands Was of dissent and setting ourselves free Lets be the Santas ourselves Lets start the new kind of Christmas for all year round A simple Christmas for peace for all humankind Trying to find a kind of happiness that will stay And become the change we want to see in ourselves It's Christmas time, it's the time of the year Slow down time, connection time And letting the pent up steam out time .. And switch to being a Santa Clause time Let's start a new kind of Christmas La la Let's start a new kind of Christmas this year La la la Let's start a new kind of Christmas post-haste La la la