Christmas With the Ones We Know and Love

Broke man all a-shiver On another winter’s eve He don’t have far to venture Has nothing up his sleeves I wonder, Where’s his Paradise tonight? Child in a doorway In a building, all ramshackle Sees mother on the bedspread This year there’ll be no travel Tell me, where’s her Paradise tonight? So sing another carol, play another tune Maybe there’ll be snowflakes from above Take your time reflecting In your decorated room Spending Christmas With the ones you know and love In the Limbo of the gutter, Lost souls sleep with gin No ties with the earthbound And no pardons from their sin But will they dwell in Paradise tonight? Nations of corruption Tied up to golden stakes If they should push a button, Would they clean the mess it makes? Do they see themselves as Paradise tonight? And sing another carol, and play another tune And maybe there’ll be snowflakes from above Take some time reflecting In our decorated rooms Spending Christmas With the ones we know and love.