Anno Domine

(NARRATION) Christmas is how In every nation That hope is passed Through generations From old to young And sometimes I'm told It's actually passed From young to old Yes, our angel had been quite impressed With this youth that he had found But then across the street he heard An old familiar sound It was a multitude of voices From the old cathedral's choir Singing out about this night And the hopes that it inspires (ANNO DOMINE) On this night of hope and salvation One child lies embraced in a dream Where each man regardless of station On this night can now be redeemed Where every man regardless of his nation Ancestral relations On this night the past can fly away And that dream we've dreamed most That every child is held close On this night that dream won't be betrayed All as one Raise your voices! Raise your voices! All as one On this christmas day! All rejoice Raise your voices! Raise your voices! All rejoice Anno domine! On this night when no child's forgotten No dream sleeps where he cannot see No man here is misbegotten And this night's dreams are still yet to be Where every man regardless of his nation Ancestral relations On this night the past can fly away And that dream we've dreamed most That every child is held close On this night that dream won't be betrayed All as one Raise your voices! Raise your voices! All as one On this christmas day! All rejoice Raise your voices! Raise your voices! All rejoice Anno domine! After the song was over Nearly every person there Went to the cathedral's basement And started setting up tables and chairs For that night this church would feed Any person in life who had less And both those that gave and those that received Left that night feeling blessed Then the angel remembered something That his lord's son had once said On how one truly followed him When words and acts were wed Some people claim to follow him But themselves they just deceive For his lord's son had said, "you will know who truly follows me Not by what they say, but by their deeds" And this church was clearly filled With kind people of goodwill But the angel had more time left on this night And continued to search on still So the angel left the parishioners With their christmas meal in happy bliss And returned once more to the hotel To make sure that there was no one there he had missed And passing by a village square He heard a brass quartet Whose christmas concerto in the key of g He felt lighten his every step