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Skyline Christmas

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Two city blocks. Every Christmas that’s all that separates people spending hundreds of millions of dollars from people who may not live through the night because they have nothing to eat and nowhere to sleep. It sounds dramatic, but that’s how it looks. I was an 18 year old kid from a small town who had moved to the big city. I was shopping in downtown Toronto and in awe of the spectacle of lights, sounds and window decorations that dominated the main streets and malls. Then I walked two blocks east to my university residence. And everything changed. I walked past people shivering in alleys, begging for change and hoping to get enough for a coffee or something to eat. I got home and couldn’t get it out of my head. I never have. I ask for the newest video game for Christmas and all they want is a place to sleep for just one night. I realized how spoiled I was – so many of us are – every Christmas. To have people who care around me. To have so much generosity showered on me. To have a place to sleep. Every night. It’s hard not to feel a bit of shame.

I know these problems exist year round in every city and town all over the world. But it just seems like this is the season to try and make a change – however small - for the better.

~James Dallas Smith
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A string of lights can’t warm these souls
Who dream about a place to dream.
Living through the night
Is not as easy as it seems

‘Cause who wants a bed where the wind will cut through you?
Rescue her instead from another fading, skyline Christmas, hallelujah.

A shooting star won’t hear the wish
She makes for a miracle to fall.
And she will wonder as she tries not to shake
If anyone is listening at all

‘Cause who wants a bed where the wind will cut through you?
Rescue her instead from another fading, skyline Christmas, hallelujah.
Hallelujah.

If we can choose to love
Then how can we choose to ignore?
If we can give a little
Can we give a little more?

‘Cause who wants a bed where the wind will cut through you?
Rescue her instead from another fading, skyline Christmas, hallelujah.
credits
released 01 December 2009
music and lyrics by: L. Ottesen / J. Smith
producer by: J. Richard Hutt
recorded at: Cedar Tree Recording - Kitchener, ON
original art by: Erika Siobhan Monckton
layout by: Alex Oliveira

James Dallas Smith - vocals
Len Ottesen - vocals and guitars
Mick Torbay - backing vocals
Alex Oliveira - percussion
Rick Hutt - keyboards

management: Cameron Carpenter / Cool Planet Entertainment
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