The Flaming Lips - A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn’t So) lyrics

I know everything changes
Yeah, it's strange how time marches on
Maybe there'll be some time in the future
Oh, tell me I'm not wrong

Oh, if I could stop time
It would be a frozen
Moment just around Christmas
When all of mankind reveals
It's truest potential
And there is sympathy for the suffering
Yes, there is sympathy for
Those who are suffering
And the world embraces peace
And love and mercy instead of power and fear
And as sure as I'm standing here
I swear it really does appear that
A change comes over us
Yes, some kind of change comes over us

And it's glimpsed for one shining moment
And this change feels like
A change that's real
But then it passes along with the season
And then we just go back to the way we were
Yes, we just go back to the way we were

Say it isn't so
Tell me I'm not just a dreamer
I'm talking with a friend and
He knows how it ends he says it's easier
That's just the way we are
That's human nature and that's just
The way we are oh, say it isn't so!