Song Description

Mary, still homeless at Christmas 2000 years later

Lyrics

CHRISTMAS IS HOMELESS

There's a picture in a magazine
Two kids beneath an evergreen
Ripping off the wrapping of the morning's final gift
And right behind them mom and dad
She looks happy, he looks proud
And the bottom of the page says "home is times like this"

Mary looks upon this scene
Tears the page from the magazine
Folds it up and slides it in her shoe
She throws the book back on the trash
To hunt for more deposit glass
There's time enough for daydreams but now there's work to do

She'd knock on the door of that family
But would they even turn the key
If the ghost of Christmas came tonight
She'd love the company
She gets by alone okay every single other day
"Please come home for Christmas" is all she seems to hear
But Christmas is homeless this year
Christmas is homeless this year

Later she unfolds the page
Tries to guess the children's age
Thinks back to a Christmas when she was just a girl
She takes a breath, takes a pen
Starts to draw herself right in
The picture of that family's Christmas day
She gazes down and makes a wish
Gives them all a goodnight kiss
then folds back up the paper and puts that dream away

She'd knock on the door of that family
But would they even turn the key
If the ghost of Christmas came tonight
She'd love the company
She gets by alone okay every single other day
"Please come home for Christmas" is all she seems to hear
But Christmas is homeless this year
Christmas is homeless this year

If someday you meet Mary, won't you stop and say hello
Remember Christmas was homeless two thousand years ago