"christmas lights" again

I love this song and actually the video too. I like it because it's honest, it reflects real life and the truth of the human condition, and it seems to also speak of hope, our need for redemption, the hope of redemption, longing for all things to be made right, and for the hope of something, someone greater than ourselves who can (and will) make all things right. Plus, well, the lyrics are pretty amazing, as is the music and, well, the video too. All around awesome-ness.

And I know you may be thinking, Christmas is over. BUT here in Madrid, it just ended this past weekend, so I'm just a day or two past. And my Christmas tree is still up. The decorations are slowly coming down, but since my roommate is out of town, I'm procrastinating doing it alone.


"Christmas Lights" - Coldplay

Christmas night, another fight
Tears we cried a flood
Got all kinds of poison in
Poison in my blood

I took my feet
To Oxford Street
Trying to right a wrong
Just walk away
Those windows say
But I can't believe she's gone

When you're still waiting for the snow to fall
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Up above candles on air flicker
Oh they flicker and they float
But I'm up here holding on
To all those chandeliers of hope

Like some drunken Elvis singing
I go singing out of tune
Saying how I always loved you darling
And I always will

Oh when you're still waiting for the snow to fall
Doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Still waiting for the snow to fall
It doesn't really feel like Christmas at all

Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on

Those Christmas lights
Light up the street
Maybe they'll bring her back to me
Then all my troubles will be gone
Oh Christmas lights keep shining on

Oh Christmas lights
Light up the street
Light up the fireworks in me
May all your troubles soon be gone
Those Christmas lights keep shining on