Bright candles in windows at Christmas time. Glad greetings fill
The air to everyone you know. Smiling faces at this holiday season
Set weary hearts all aglow.Christmas time what sudden surprise
Awaits under the tall sparkling tree. An engagement ring or new pairs of
Socks a book of delicious candy a  short silk gown maybe dvd's
To make each receiver feel dandy. I for one wish Christmas time
Would last through the entire year. To erase all the bad news on tv
And in each newspaper. If we share love and happiness surely God
Will grant each one of us divine favor. Sitting in houses of peace. With more than enough natural love and plenty to eat.
Merry CHRISTMAS TO ONE AND ALL

Spent so much of my time in loving you.I thought everything between us
Was real but that turned out to be untrue. Know that's time to go forward
And not look back.Like a locomotive traveling down a one way track.
You didn't really need me or couldn't adore. But I feel deep down inside
I'll be just the person somebody else will be looking for. Not just
Another one to be shown to heartbreak's door
Thrown away love mama tried to tell me about it. I 'm a strong believer
Now and I used to doubt it . Soon will be ready to  let someone new
Into my life and  lock and bolt the door on the old thrown away love.

Deliver us from evil inside ourselves. From hating each other
Because we all have different colored skins white black yellow brown .
Hating does not make us know what we do. To harm and destroy
Humanity.It takes away our sanity. Let our peace together on this earth
Become a flower of many creeds and talents working together.To make our nation strong and united. Living out the true meaning of what makes Us American proud and valiant among all other nations of the world

I can remember as a male child playing with my lone toy car.On the floor
In a house where love was present coming from mama. Who could ask
For more? Much to young to know that politics would be a part of
Adult life . And become a lying fairy tale. People marching in
Washington streets for full freedom and equal rights. Single mothers
With fatherless children not sleeping at all many nights. Women shut out
The doors of equal pay.Gridlock a living monster on both politicial sides
That just won't go away. And the PRESIDENT with smooth words
And body language trying to shoo the problem away. Wants to sip
KENTUCKY bourbon with GOP speaker MITCH McConnel while
The ROME of our nation slowly burns. Is reason impossible?

I can hear the rain falling hard and fast outside my window. Rain coming
Down to water city sidewalks and streets. People pass with raised
Umbrellas rushing to work. Raindrops touch places where spring
Flowers lived before surrendering to death.Washing the city clean
Each second that it drops down asks no permission to do its  mission
Count on the rain with a steady beat to be around . And if you don't
Have to go anywhere just pull up the covers to your chin and know
The falling rain coming down is everybody's friend
Have a cup of warm tea on me.Or relax in a bubble bath and breath free

I watch with a number of others as the blind man RAY CHARLES
Is lead onto the stage.With dark glasses covering his eyes
Like black bandages.  Once seated at the piano his hands touch the keys
And with head thrown back and body moving from side to side
Lips open and sound comes rushing out like a train going through a
Tunnel of night or an escaping convict finally free
With jerking motions like one sitting on an emotional hot wire
Blown down in an unforgiving storm with WHAT I SAY GEORGIA
ON MY MIND I GOT A WOMAN WAY OVER TOWN THAT'S GOOD TO ME and listeners sit transfixed that so much talent
could come from one blind man to compose and sing the blues
From the blood and guts of hard times

When nobody's around she cries
The tears that during the day she had to hide
Love is beautiful when its right. But so deadly when its wrong.