This is lyric #359

DOWN WITH XMAS
Lyrics: Harry Kopy
© Simonopy 2003

Getting too commercialized, stupid gifts like sox and ties
Putting on all kinds of weight, eating nuts and fruit cake
Smiling at the relatives, smacking all their bratty kids
Dealing with obnoxious clerks, while pushy shoppers act like jerks

Cooking, cleaning, wrapping gifts, feels like I work a second shift
The pressure mounts on what to buy, expensive things, I want to cry
Department store’s Santa Claus, Ho-ho-hoing my lost cause
They put their Displays out too soon, seems like Christmas starts in June

They move their carts all through the aisles
The prissy girl says “that’s not my style”
The tried on rejects lay on the floor
With an armload of gifts she checks out of the store…

Depression now starts setting in, give me that gift wrapped bottle of gin
The streets become roads of rage, put those drivers in a cage
Outside my neighbor’s blinking lights, blinding me with elves in tights
Can’t wait to get them up they say, then they don’t take them down till May
Who am I to protest you, and criticize the things you do
Well I point out all these flaws, because my name is Santa Claus



[This message has been edited by Marty Helly (edited 06-08-2006).]