Wake Up, Scrooge!

Lyrics

[INTRO] Wake up, Scrooge The bells are ringing The ghosts are gone The morning’s waiting And you’ve been asleep too long [VERSE 1] You’ve got frost on your windows And locks on your doors Got a heart like a ledger Keeping score, keeping score You count every blessing Like it owes you a debt Then wonder why mercy Hasn’t found you yet Your pockets are heavy Your table is bare You own half the city But you don’t live anywhere You can polish your silver You can guard every dime But you can’t buy back Christmas When you’ve wasted the time [PRE-CHORUS] And the clock keeps ticking And the streetlights glow And the child by the window Still watches the falling snow [CHORUS] Wake up, Scrooge Throw the shutters open wide There’s a world outside your window And it hasn’t died Wake up, Scrooge You still have hands to use You can curse the morning coming Or you can let it change you Wake up Wake up Wake up, Scrooge [VERSE 2] You’ve got opinions like ornaments Hung up for display And a list of all the reasons Why compassion has to wait You’ve got hymns in your memory And coal in your chest You can quote all the prophets While ignoring the rest There’s a boy on the corner There’s a mother in line There’s a neighbor going hungry While you argue online There’s a knock at the doorway There’s a voice in the hall And it sounds a lot like Christmas Saying, “God bless us all” [PRE-CHORUS] And the clock keeps ticking But the night isn’t through If the ghosts came calling They were calling for you [CHORUS] Wake up, Scrooge Throw the shutters open wide There’s a world outside your window And it hasn’t died Wake up, Scrooge You still have hands to use You can curse the morning coming Or you can let it change you Wake up Wake up Wake up, Scrooge [BRIDGE] Oh, what a lovely little cage What a charming little grave All decorated for the season With the things you tried to save What a comfortable disaster What a well-lit masquerade What a merry little kingdom Built on being unafraid But the ghosts were not your enemies The grief was not the end The future wasn’t written It was begging you to bend So open up the curtains Let the freezing sunlight in Throw the coins into the street And let the singing start again [BREAKDOWN] Wake up, Scrooge The poor are not a problem Wake up, Scrooge The lonely are not proof Wake up, Scrooge The stranger is not stealing What God was always trying To give to you [FINAL CHORUS] Wake up, Scrooge Throw the shutters open wide There’s a world outside your window And it hasn’t died Wake up, Scrooge You still have love to choose You can mourn the years behind you Or let mercy make them new Wake up, Scrooge There’s still a feast to make Still a hand to hold Still a chain to break Wake up, Scrooge The morning’s breaking through And the dream you’re scared of losing Might be losing you Wake up Wake up Wake up, Scrooge [OUTRO] The bells are ringing The snow is falling The street is singing The day is calling And somewhere in the window Of a room you thought was closed A candle’s still burning And it’s time to come home