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What Will Become of Christmas? (ft. Grant​-​Lee Phillips)

from Eban Schletter's Cosmic Christmas by Eban Schletter

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There
Beneath a shining star so very far away
Rests a world
Itself so far, so very far away
And there
On that tiny world
A tiny person thinks of bigger things

For lo
In the crisp of night
Lo
In the lunar light
Aglow
And taking flight a cheerful chorus rings

But nay
Heard above the bells
A boom
Ripples to dispel
The fantasy we tell ourselves arrives on Christmas day

And what will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
Is there nothing we can do?
What will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
What will happen to Christmas?

Long
Is the season change when slower winds prevail
And gone
The seductive pull of the midnight zephyr's tail
So wrong
To have undermined
The ancient forces keeping all alive.

But soft
Through the din of years
Soft
Though a pool of tears
Aloft
In songs of love a peace begins to thrive


Until,
In the fear of doom
A chill
Swallows whole the moon
And wills
That the world descend so very far away

And what will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
Is there nothing we can do?
What will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
What will happen to Christmas?

For the glory
Of Redemption
Awaits ever attainable
In the knowing
Of possibilities

And the story
Of the many
Who strived must survive
To find peace
And continue to exist right

There
On a floating speck in a boundless galaxy
Where
Near a shining star a tiny planet breathes
So faint
The precious glow of life
Adapts itself to many things

And lo
In the crisp of night
Lo
In the lunar light
Aglow
And taking flight a cheerful chorus rings

Until,
In the fear of doom
A chill
Swallows whole the moon
And wills
That the world descend so very far away

And what will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
Is there nothing we can do?
What will become of Christmas
When everything is through
When we've lost the Golden Rule
What will happen to Christmas?

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from Eban Schletter's Cosmic Christmas, released November 17, 2009

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Eban Schletter Los Angeles, California

Eban Schletter is a composer/songwriter who has written music for film and television shows including Spongebob Squarepants, Another Period, Stan Against Evil, Drawn Together, Comedy Central’s BattleBots and Mr. Show with Bob and David.

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