The air has turned chilly

A frost on the grass

Each morning at dawn

We get up real fast

We work and we toil

Then shop when we can

Is this truly Christmas,

With the message it sends?

The stores are all greedy

They bait and they hook

Trying to get all our money

They are nothing but crooks

Why are we going crazy

Trying to get that right gift

When the truth of the matter

Is the seasonal lift

Let’s all stop the  shopping

Put the wallets away

Let the stores shut their doors

I got something to say

The gift that was given

Is the one that holds true

It’s the way we are living

It’s everything that we do

From the light of a candle

To a meal, sat with friends

The heat from a fireplace

And the warmth that it lends

To the soul of the stranger

That we meet on the street

The gift of the giving

Should be with all that we meet

Let’s all stop the shopping

Put the wallets away

Let the stores shut their doors

I got something to say

The gift that was given

Is the one that holds true

It’s the way we are living

It’s everything that we do

Even Santa has knelt

Before the manger where laid

The One sent with hope

Where all came and prayed

He knew that the giving

Is not in the gift that you get

But in the gift that you’re giving

When there’s nothing left

Let’s all stop the shopping

Put the wallets away

Let the stores shut their doors

I got something to say

The gift that was given

Is the one that holds true

It’s the way we are living

It’s everything that we do

And when Christmas arrives

It’s not the time to change ways

For the acts of the kindness

Lies in a years worth of days

But the joy of the season

Is in then knowing the truth

All the kindness we can muster

Shared in all that we do

Let’s all stop the shopping

Put the wallets away

Let the stores shut their doors

I got something to say

The gift that was given

Is the one that holds true

It’s the way we are living

It’s everything that we do