Bill Mallonee - Bethlehem lyrics

God rest ye merry gentlemen We're empty but full of dreams Seen it on the gallery walls Read it in books and magazines Second Person of the Trinity Saviour dearest friend Two worlds crash and flesh and blood There in bethlehem Your love's whisper tapping on the wall And then breaking down my door Come and claim the??? Come and claim what's rightfully yours It's amazing you should seek me I've been hiding out for so long It's amazing you should greet me And call my heart your home At this time of visitation I see how deeply that I'm spent Melt the snow around this cold heart With the fire of your intent It's a tired world this Christmas It's getting wearier by the minute We've hit the quota overextended on the limits Of sadness, badness and madness Come to think of it Come and wake the sleeping Come and give them rest The numb dumb damned depressed possessed naked and undressed Hark the herald angels sing We've heard good tiding from on high All escape routes have been sealed off Every alibi strangles and dies Deity hits the newsstand Jesus the Father sends Two worlds crash in flesh and blood There in bethlehem At this time of visitation I see how deeply I have spent Melt the snow around my heart With the fire of your intent Joy to the world the Lord is come