"Hallelujah" with actual Christmas Lyrics
Channel: Sue Klaus
Date: 2017-12-11

Apologies to Leonard Cohen. I don't think he meant this as a Christmas song - the verses don't refer to it.
Until now.

Lyrics by Sue Klaus 2017.

It's said that Christmas is a bore,
With everyone only wanting more
And shoppers run exhausted through the twilight.
But it's the Vet who dies in the cold tonight
When the frost snuffs out his only light.
That's the cold and that's the broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

The table set, the candles lit
The glowing faces wait for it,
When gifts and gelt adorn the Sabbath table. 
But Muslims die in Myanmar,
In Syria, in lands afar, 
In Palestine, the children get arrested.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

The parties pierce the silky night
When spirits flow and then take flight,
And wishes warm the hearts for the intended.
As the ill and elderly remain
Alone and suffering in pain,
In prisons of their loneliness expanded.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

The feasting millions take a bite
They laugh, cajole, and start to fight
About which party listens to the people.
As Native Peoples stand their ground
The fires keep burning all around
And hurricanes destroy the ward and steeple.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

As funding drives expand to meet
The ever growing pledge receipt
To step in when society can harm us.
But Yemen's children starve to death
And polar bears will give last breath,
That's the cold and that's the broken Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.