Secular Christmas Blues

Every year it's the same When Christmas songs begin to play The ice and snow, the candles glow The old familiar way So lift up your voice But first you've got to make a choice Of what to sing, when everything's About a certain baby boy You might say that's expected Now we celebrate his birth But the one truth I've neglected Is that I don't go to church I'm a Christmas liar You won't see me at Mass, you won't see me in choir It's a Christmas sin No religion for me, I just like all the hymns I'm singing of angels and shepherds of old And mangers and cattle and perfumes and gold I'm a Christmas sham But these songs are so pretty, and so here I am I confess that I sing Of bells I don't intend to ring There's no hate I don't mind faith It's just not my thing It's not that I'm against it Those holy things on high From all I hear about him Jesus is a stand-up guy I'm just not much for churches And bread and veils and wine I hope it's still all right though To sing of the divine I'm a Christmas liar You won't see me at Mass, you won't see me in choir It's a Christmas sin No religion for me, I just like all the hymns I'm singing of angels and shepherds of old And mangers and cattle and perfumes and gold I'm a Christmas sham But these songs are so pretty, and so here I am