Old City Bar Lyrics - Christmas Eve And Other Stories - Trans Siberian Orchestra

In an old city bar 

That is never too far 

From the places that gather 

The dreams that have been 

In the safety of night 

With its old neon light 

It beckons to strangers 

And they always come in 

And the snow it was falling 

The neon was calling 

The music was low 

And the night 

Christmas Eve 

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And here was the danger 

That even with strangers 

Inside of this night 

It's easier to believe 

Then the door opened wide 

And a child came inside 

That no one in the bar 

Had seen there before 

And he asked did we know 

That outside in the snow 

That someone was lost 

Standing outside our door 

Then the bartender gazed 

Through the smoke and the haze 

Through the window and ice 

To a corner streetlight 

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Where standing alone 

By a broken pay phone 

Was a girl the child said 

Could no longer get home 

And the snow it was falling 

The neon was calling 

The bartender turned 

And said, not that I care 

But how would you know this? 

The child said I've noticed 

If one could be home 

They'd be all ready there 

Then the bartender came out from behind the bar 

And in all of his life he was never that far 

And he did something else that he thought no one saw 

When he took all the cash from the register draw 

Then he followed the child to the girl cross the street 

And we watched from the bar as they started to speak 

Then he called for a cab and he said J. F. K 

Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away 

And we saw in his hand 

That the cash was all gone 

From the light that she had wished upon 

If you want to arrange it 

This world you can change it 

If we could somehow make this 

Christmas thing last 

By helping a neighbor 

Or even a stranger 

And to know who needs help 

You need only just ask 

Then he looked for the child 

But the child wasn't there 

Just the wind and the snow 

Waltzing dreams through the air 

So he walked back inside 

Somehow different I think 

For the rest of the night 

No one paid for a drink 

And the cynics will say 

That some neighborhood kid 

Wandered in on some bums 

In the world where they hid 

But they weren't there 

So they couldn't see 

By an old neon star 

On that night, Christmas Eve 

When the snow it was falling 

The neon was calling 

And in case you should wonder 

In case you should care 

Why we're on our own 

Never went home 

On that night of all nights 

We were already there