Derek Webb - Chasing Empty Mangers lyrics

[Derek Webb - Chasing Empty Mangers lyrics]

The tiny christmas tree
The empty stockings hanging
The house devoid of chaos and life
While daddy’s getting drunk
The peanuts kids are dancing
There’s no star atop the tree tonight
'cause i’m taking what you give
The baby god returning
Bringing peace to every house but mine

So another man takes the fall
Just for doing all he could
In light of what you dreamed up
For your glory and another man’s good
Oh god, what have i done
Without your great permission
Knowing fully of the end at the start
Like a dirty goddamn trick
I either sin as i resist you
Or i do it as i’m doing my part
So all my empathy to judas and the devil


They were yours as much in
Light as in the dark

So another man takes the fall
Just for doing all he could
In light of what you dreamed up
For your glory and another man’s good

So tonight i'll watch the skies
For a sleigh and saint appearing
Like a great star running out of space
On this drunken christmas eve
I gotta say that feels as likely
As any one of you three showing your face
So a toast to all my friends
Who are lost and beat and bleeding
Still chasing empty mangers out of faith

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