Old City Bar

[00:15.40]In an old city bar[00:15.40]

[00:18.05]That's never too far

[00:21.93]From the places that gather

[00:25.09]The dreams that have been

[00:28.53]In the safety of night

[00:31.63]With its old neon light

[00:35.75]It beckons to strangers

[00:38.57]And they always come in

[00:42.31]And the snow it was falling

[00:44.74]Neon was calling

[00:48.28]The music was low

[00:51.86]And the night Christmas

[00:55.85]EveAnd here was the danger

[00:59.30]That even with strangers

[01:02.04]Inside of this night

[01:09.18]It's easier to believe

[01:21.78]Then the door opened wide

[01:25.05]And a child came inside

[01:28.22]That no one in the bar

[01:31.22]Had seen there before

[01:34.79]And he asked did we know

[01:35.62]That outside in the snow

[01:41.39]That someone was lost

[01:44.93]Standing outside our door

[01:47.94]Then the bartender gazed

[01:51.06]Through the smoke and the haze

[01:54.11]Through the window and ice

[01:57.25]To that corner streetlight

[02:00.15]Where standing alone

[02:03.83]By a broken pay phone

[02:07.55]Was a girl, the child said

[02:10.65]Could no longer get home

[02:13.60]And the snow it was falling

[02:17.03]Neon was calling

[02:28.43]Bartender turned and said, "Not that I careBut how would you know this?"

[02:40.44]The child said, "I've noticedIf one could be home, they'd be already there"

[02:56.01]Then the bartender came out, from behind the bar

[03:01.82]And in all of his life, was never that far

[03:08.18]And he did something else that he thought no one saw

[03:14.51]When he took all the cash from the register drawer

[03:20.30]Then he followed the child to the girl across the street

[03:26.40]And we watched from the bar as they started to speak

[03:33.55]Then he called for a cab then he said, "J.F.K."

[03:39.16]Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away

[03:46.10]And we saw in his hand, that the cash was all gone

[03:53.37]From the light that she had wished upon

[03:58.31]If you want to arrange it

[04:01.55]This world you can change it

[04:02.23]If we could somehow make this Christmas thing last

[04:10.04]By helpin' a neighbour

[04:13.62]Even a stranger

[04:17.53]To know who needs help

[04:22.86]You need only just ask

[04:36.17]Then he looked for the child

[04:39.94]But the child wasn't there

[04:43.47]Just the wind and the snow

[04:46.87]Waltzing dreams through the air

[04:50.33]So he walked back inside

[04:52.69]Somehow different,I think

[04:56.68]For the rest of the night

[04:59.72]No one paid for a drink

[05:03.17]And the cynics will say

[05:06.52]That some neighbourhood kid

[05:09.52]Wandered in on some bums

[05:13.18]In the world where they hid

[05:16.45]But they weren't there

[05:19.43]So they couldn't see

[05:22.67]By an old neon star

[05:24.84]On that night,

[05:25.26]Christmas

[05:29.44]When the snow it was falling

[05:32.94]And neon was calling

[05:36.41]In case you should wonder

[05:39.82]In case you should care

[05:44.82]Why we on our own

[05:47.42]Never went home?

[05:51.62]On that night of all nights

[05:58.05]We were already there