Paper Trees

I wrote a Christmas song! It has very, very little to do with Christmas, but I really want it to be a Christmas song. It does have references to snow, and snowy trees, and also there's a few lines that vaguely resemble "We Three Kings" (vaguely). So that qualifies it, right?
Seriously, though, I'm sick of all the kitschy secular songs, and all the songs with good chords and melodies are hymns. It's a shame. We need more people to write Christmas songs. Good ones, preferably. I'm looking at you, "All I Want for Christmas is You".
Wow I hate that song so much.
Truly, though, there's an absolute dearth of new Christmas songs, as evidenced by malls playing the same ones over and over and over and over until your ears bleed. This is a serious problem.

As usual, I apologize for terrible video quality, and also the off-key vocals. I'm still experimenting with precisely how the melody should go...so just listen to the pretty piano, okay? I'll probably fix this once I figure everything out.

Paper Trees: A Christmas Song

Paper trees

Bowed to me

Said, “Joseph,

You'll be king of fleas.”

Ash fell down

Burned my crown

Paper trees

Fell down

Paper trees

Reached to the sky

Said, “Joseph,

You'll be lord of flies.”

And when the sky

Was cold and grey

The paper flakes

Had fall'n all day

I laid down

Kissed the ground

Begged for stars

To guide the way

Paper chains

And birds in vines

Traded for

Twelve cups of wine

And paper trees

They reached to me

Said, “Joseph

You belong to me.”

Said, “When you look up

From the well

I'll give you stars

And snow as well."

And paper chains

They burned away

And I could finally

Rise to say

“Stars of night,

You bow to me,

I'll be the lord

of Eternity,”

And then the stars

Venus and Mars

Sirius and Achenar

Paper stars on paper chains

Fell all apart

In snow and rain

I lay looking

Up the well

Paper trees

As snow they fell

And I lay looking

At the stars

Sirius and Achenar

And I knew

Paper falls

Paper tears

Paper's all just pretense there

Paper trees

Bowed to me

Said, “Joseph

You'll be king of fleas.”

Paper trees

Bowed to me

Said, “Joseph

You'll be king of fleas.”