Christmas on the Bowery

(from the CD Songs from the Bright Side)

It's Christmas on the Bowery
Nineteen ninety-two
I'm forty-four and dying
From pining over you
I went to join Club Med
They gave me Noah's ark
I'm dragging on my cigarette
And drooling in the dark.
:
Love goes wrong, love goes right
It don't matter how it travels
When it tangos out of sight
Love goes right, love goes wrong
It don't matter how it travels
When it's gone gone gone.

It's Christmas on the Bowery
I'm an alien from Mars
Looking out the window
At the snowflakes and the stars
I'm two men at a party
One who dances, one who freezes
One who makes the ladies laugh
And one who cries for Jesus.

Where's the jolly jingle bell
Where's my Santa Claus
My favorite party hat and
My favorite party clothes
Where's the manger where's the Savior
Where's Bing Crosby where the hell is Mary
Where's the mistletoe the Christmas tree
Where's the Christmas Fairy?

It's Christmas on the Bowery
I'm hanging on the cross
So maybe this is Easter?
If it is I'm truly lost
Lost and going nowhere
Lost and going crazy
Where's my Christmas miracle
Where's my runaway baby?

It's Christmas on the Bowery
I won't pick up the phone
My mouth an open wound
My hand a broken bone
I've got my tiny candle
On the dark side of the moon
Now it's dawn, now it's day
Now it's afternoon.

Where's the Tabernacle Choir
Rudolf and his pals
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
And all the lovely gals
Where's the angel that I worshipped
With the halo round her head
Where's the whisky where's the wine
Where's the hooker where's the bed?