Christmas Presence
Channel: Phoenix Bee Wolf-Ray
Date: 18/12/2011

Original christmas song by Bee Wolf Ray, accompanied by Peter Cloud Panjoyah, deep and dark as befits this dark season... with a ray of light at the end.

Lyrics:

Christmas Presence  

It is the season of sentiment and suicide
time for treasure and trauma with no place to hide
from the trumped up cheer and the canned caroling
we've forgotten the meaning of Christmas
or lost it in packaging and tinsel

It is the season of grief, of brief, sweet relief
From the hard cold necessities of our hard cold days
We pretend peace on earth, and we dream good will to men 
we've forgotten the reason for Christmas 
or wrapped it in paper and glitter

In a child's bright eyes is the sparkle we seek; 
when our children were children, we dreamed lies could be true
So we tricked all the truth from the faith of a child
While we prayed for the feeling of Christmas
Which was hidden in platitudes and jingles

Can a lie turn a faerieland into a fraud
Can a dream told so many times ever be true
Can a little child lead us into that sacred place 
where Christmas came from

Christmas is Solstice, the longest night
Christmas is Hannukah, festival of light
and Christmas is Santa Claus and Christmas is Christ
but when Christ was a child, no one died in his name
Christmas is calling us to be children again

May we call ourselves child, may our eyes be bright
May we follow our children from blindness to sight
May our hearts be aflame with the love that knows no shame 
May we forget to remember what war is
As we open our presence for Christmas
And may Christmas presence be endless