Just Another Day                                                                © 2005 Jim Feldman

         C          Am        F                         C                    G       C

It’s a cold night in the drafty room that serves as your Elliot home

C                     Am             F                                                             G7

Except for the treasure in front of you, you got nothin that’s your own

C                                Am                       F                      G

Though you keep the heat quite low to chase away the bills

       C        Am              F                      C                 G           C

The inner warmth you carry defies the ice on the window sills

 

A couple mice have moved in, for the warmth inside your wall

Even your cat don’t seem to mind that they’ve been livin’ there since fall

The torn shade on your window is no match for the bright street lamp

But it’s so much better than last year by that 35 W ramp

 

Chorus

           G                                                       F                    C 

In the coldest, darkest times   You always find a light to shine

        Am                               F                                                                      G

And you would share your wealth with strangers  If they’d ever take the time

(3rd x only) You’d share your wealth of love                

C                                                                         F                                      C          

There’s more than enough for one here  Though most wouldn’t see it that way

        C         Am                  F                                 C           G       C

But on this journey that is mortal life What you offer is another day.

                                     C          Am         F                                    C         G               C

(2nd & 3rd x only) Yes another day with Jesus   (3rd x only) Just another love-filled day

 

Your health care has been slashed again to pay mounting war bills

To keep the oil coming and to get more innocents get killed

There’s no child left behind in this town because no one is gettin’ ahead

Except the leaders that scare the rest into thinking we could soon be dead

 

But there’s no anger in your body as you sit in your worn out chair

You don’t cry with angst when you see that things just do not seem fair

What makes you seem oblivious as you miss the American dream

You have peace in life as you reflect upon your precious manger scene

 

Chorus

 

If the wind’s just right on this winter’s night you will hear the ringing bells

Calling all the Catholic folk to St. Mary’s to be saved from hell

It’s an irony that they don’t see but isn’t lost on you

because you Don’t have go to Jesus he will always come to you.

 

So stay at home and celebrate this night that he was born

You sing so loud the windows shake as if you were blowin’ a horn

And on this longest night that settles on the only world we know

You open the gift from Jesus, it’s light and love that need no bow

Chorus.