Christmas at the Hospital
		Louie Ludwig/Clark Vreeland  zzi music/Vreehoff Music


I was sitting around thinking, "What would the most depressing Christmas song ever be?"
A few ideas--Christmas in jail, I just want a cigarette for Christmas--seemed surely done before.
Then this one hit. Clark showed me where the bridge had to go, for which I can't thank him enough.
Another clandestine video, this one shot at Touro Infirmary in an afternoon.


Right outside the window, there's a snowy winter scene
Lots of blinking lights--they're part of the machines
Poinsettias on the table and an empty plastic chair
It's Christmas at the hospital and you're not here

Charlie Brown's on channel 9 with that scraggy little tree
Angie at the nurses' station had a card for me
Some kids came in this afternoon and sang a song of cheer
But it's Christmas at the hospital and you're not here

I know it's not your fault
Things get in the way
And I know that you won't call
'Cause, reall, what's to say?

They tell me it's a day of joy, why, I just don't know
'Cause all I've got's this quiet room, no footsteps in the snow
If you want proof that there's a god, but he just don't care,
Try Christmas at the hospital and you're not here