Merry Christmas Merry Christmas May your every New Year dream come true Sweet December song The melody that saved me On those less than silent nights When snow would fall upon my bed White sugar from Jesus And take me to the day She could always smile The Virgin Child would always show, you see Just to save me (Just to save me) There was always Christmas time To wipe the year away I guess that morning they'd decided That the war would have to wait There was always Christmas time Jesus came to stay I could believe in peace on Earth And I could watch TV all day So I dreamed of Christmas Maybe since you've gone I went a little crazy God knows they can see the child But the snow that falls upon my bed That loving that I needed Falls every single day For each and every child The Virgin smiles for all to see But you kept her from me There was always Christmas time To wipe the year away I guess that morning they'd decided That the war would have to wait There was always Christmas time Jesus came to stay I could believe in peace on Earth And I could watch TV all day So I dreamed of Christmas, yes, I dreamed like you Merry Christmas Merry Christmas May your every New Year dream come true

I dreamed a dream in time gone by When hope was high and life worth living I dreamed that love would never die I prayed that God would be forgiving Then, I was young and unafraid And dreams were made, and used, and wasted There was no ransom to be paid No song unsung, no wine untasted But the tigers come at night With their voices soft as thunder As they tear your hopes apart And they turn your dream to shame Still, I dreamed he comes to me That we would live years together But there are dreams that cannot be And there are storms we cannot weather I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm living So different now from what it seemed Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

The Stone-Josh Ritter Change your face Change your name Rip the roots that you layed down Rip the roots that you layed down You'll keep your hurt You'll keep your pain Close company now Close company now Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down Love'll burn a hole Through your human doubts And free your heart from the stone Free your heart from the stone And the stone may roll But it'll search you out No matter where you go It'll find you Lying wide awake In a different house With different arms around you now On a different street In a different town On the same old road That the night comes down On the same old road That the night comes down That the night comes down

I got someone on my mind And she don't make me wait the way you do But time Oh she holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love I got someone on my mind And she holds me pretty much the way you do But time She holds me all the time And she don't make me wait the way you do Wait for love Sometimes babe we all have to wait for love

I had a dream last night I dreamt that I was swimming And the stars up above Directionless and drifting Somewhere in the dark Were the sirens and the thunder And around me as I swam The drifters who'd gone under Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time I had a dream last night And rusting far below me Battered hulls and broken hardships Leviathan and Lonely I was thirsty so I drank And though it was salt water There was something 'bout the way It tasted so familiar Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time The black clouds I'm hanging This anchor I'm dragging The sails of memory rip open in silence We cut through the lowlands All hands through the saltlands The white caps of memory Confusing and violent I had a dream last night And when I opened my eyes Your shoulder blade, your spine Were shorelines in the moon light New worlds for the weary New lands for the living I could make it if I tried I closed my eyes I kept on swimming Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time Time, love Time, love Time, love It's only a change of time Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go) Time, love (rough seas) Time, love (they carry me) Time, love (wherever) It's only a change of time (I go)

On the night that you were born Your mama who had many friends Took you down across the reach To meet the tide come in There were no lilies from my footsteps There were no temple curtains torn Still I felt you move inside me A strong swimmer to be born The wind was in your hair And your lips were flecked with salt Your eyes were two boats for the moon I said, a strong swimmer you'll be called Now I cannot believe to see The leagues that you have swum Cannot believe you once were me That you and I were one Time only travels one way I'm afraid still I'm a fool Cause in my mind I try to wind The twine back on the spool Now I'm standing on the cliffs Cold sea is far below The birds that float the midway air Like driven flakes of snow I cannot go where you are going I can no longer fight those waves Still I'll watch you til you're out of sight A strong swimmer all the way

Radio waves are coming miles and miles Bringing only empty boats Whatever feeling they had when they sailed Somehow slipped out between the notes Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit And I was thinking 'bout what Katy done Thinking 'bout what Katy did The fairest daughter of the Pharaoh's son Dressed in gold 'neath pyramids Out on the desert now and feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Sighing just a little bit Ones and zeroes bleeding mesa noise And when you're empty there's so much space for them You turn it off but then a still small voice Comes in blazing from some vast horizon And I was thinking 'bout my river days And I was thinking 'bout me and Jim Passing Cairo on a getaway With every steamboat like a hymn Out on the desert now I'm feeling lost The bonnet wears a wire albatross Monster ballads and the stations of the cross Sighing just a little bit Smiling just a little bit