Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Sleep in heavenly peace
Silent night, holy night
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing,
Take a little trip with me back to Junior High
Set the time machine to 1975
We’d just found out that momma’s gonna have another kid
Back in the 8th grade
Remember the days when life was not so mysterious
Follow me down the hall to the cafeteria
Where the worst thing I could mess up
Was dipping yesterday’s corn dog in [...]
I would take no for an answer
Just to know I heard You speak
And I’m wonderin’ why I’ve never
Seen the signs they claim they see
Are the special revelations
Meant for everbody but me?
Maybe I don’t truly know You
Or maybe I just simply believe
‘Cause I can sniff, I can see
And I can count up pretty high
But these faculties [...]
Feel the sun in my eyes, swat that clumsy fly
Woke me up from a dream about Heaven
I’m smellin’ coffee downstairs, yawn a quick little prayer
And get up at a quarter to seven
The mirror catches my stare, got some nice pillow hair
And I smile all the way to the bathroom
Scratch my whiskerly chin, now my cranium [...]
Looked out my window last night
From my pillow and I
Saw the willow weepin’ a causal sigh
Man in the moon looked rather
Sad and confused as if he’d
Become a mirror into my watery eyes
I dreamed and prayed through the night
Please send some grace with your mornin’ light
Then he sent you along like a summer day
With a blue [...]