Mean Christmas

We are home tonight, and we are lucky
Between the dog, and you, it's a family
If nothing else is happenin'
The fireplace is cracklin'
It's everything we need

I tell you down at the border
Where they are busy keeping order
And nobody is safe
Feeling all the hate
And they would do anything to trade their place
With you and me this Christmas Eve

And if you think then you should struggle
To be at peace with all the trouble
For fellow human beings
Without the ways and means
Yeah, you should be coming apart at the seams
'Cause it's a mean old Christmas Eve
It's a mean, mean Christmas Eve

So we fight
While they shiver
And we're coming to look up to the winners
So the best can keep rising
On Christmas Day

And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean, Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way
Another mean, mean Christmas
And it doesn't have to be this way