Tinsel on the Timber (Hang the Gloss Upon the Cross!)

[Instrumental intro] [Verse 1] October leaves are barely dead! They paint the calendar in red! Unfreeze the diva from the vault! Pour the sugar on the salt! Polystyrene in the manger bed! A barcode stamped upon the bread! [Pre-Chorus] Shave the cedar, dress the pine. Turn the water into turpentine. Staple the invoice... Right to the beam! Bleed the routine! Bleed the routine! [Chorus] Hang the gloss upon the cross! Calculate the profit and the loss! Thirty pieces of a silver bell! Buying heaven in a hollow shell! All we want! Is what you sell! [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] Cinnamon locusts in the mall. Preaching markdowns to us all. Trading the myrrh for aerosol spray. Signing the ledger till Judgment Day. Binge on the ribbon, starve on the bone! A plastic Herod on a velvet throne! [Pre-Chorus] Shave the cedar, dress the pine! Turn the water into turpentine! Staple the invoice... Right to the beam! [Chorus] Hang the gloss upon the cross! Calculate the profit and the loss! Thirty pieces of a silver bell! Buying heaven in a hollow shell! All we want! Is what you sell! [Bridge] Let the tinsel rot in the rain. Wash the lacquer out of the grain. Under the catalog. Under the cost. Nothing that matters... Was ever lost. A quiet mercy. Wait for the thaw. Unbought. Unbroken. Raw. [Outro] Hang the gloss upon the cross! *(Hang the gloss upon the cross!)* Hang the gloss upon the cross! *(Unbought! Unbroken!)* Hang the gloss upon the cross! Hang the gloss upon the cross! [End]