Stringing lights with your bottle of booze
Fingers-crossed you won't blow a fuse
Family fights and the weekly blues
Is that all it is to you?

Early nights 'cause you get off late
Tired eyes at a quarter of eight
Trying hard to avoid the flue
Is that all it is to you?

Trying not to be bitter
But it sneaks in like a spy
Trying not to be a quitter
But it's harder every time

Netflix and a TV dinner
Mom says that you're looking thinner
Walmart made your Christmas dream
Is that all it needs to be?

Alive on Christmas
Don't you know that it's more than just an American business
A well-oiled, money machine?
Don't you know what it really means to be
Alive on Christmas?

Red porcelain Santa Claus
Passed down from your old and lost
[?] Lights with a festive hue
Is that all it is to you?

Sundown at 4PM
You're wishing it was June again
Another drink and it's off to sleep
Is that all it means to be

Alive on Christmas
Don't you know that it's more than just an American business
A well-oiled, money machine?
Don't you know what it really means to be
Alive on Christmas
Don't you know that it's more than just an American business
A well-oiled, money machine?
Don't you know what it really means to be
Alive on Christmas?

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
More than a clay manger
If that's all you think than you're in danger
It's time to see life in the eyes of Love
It's time to find hope in God above

Oh, it's Christmas
And don't you know that it's more than an American business
A well-oiled, money machine?
Don't you know what it really means to be
Alive on Christmas?