Chuck Pelletier's new song "Christmas Came Rushing"...

...makes total sense to me.

Last year at Christmas we bought a piano

Dragged that thing up both the two flights of stairs

I polished the wood like that old man Geppetto,

Opened the door so it could breathe fresh air

My fingers were shy

Not sure they would still know

All the chords to the carols

I played years ago

Then Christmas came rushing back into my head

Don’t recall what I’ve given, or gotten, or said,
But Christmas came rushing back into my head

In a song

It drew my mind back to when I was just seven

We had a room downstairs we called the music room

My dad used to play an old walnut piano

And every December we’d ask for those tunes

He’d pause for a moment

He’d stare at the keys

Then play, just like magic

Those old melodies

And Christmas came rushing back into his head

We’d sing ‘til he carried us off into bed

And Christmas came rushing back into his head

In a song

            
That’s when I thought what this piano needs

 Is a few little hands dancing along the keys

So this year I badgered my brothers,

Got them to fly to LA, to spend Christmas out here

And my little nephew crawled up on the bench

To play jingle bells like he does every year

But he got discouraged

He couldn’t remember

Cause he hadn’t played it

Since last December

Then Christmas came rushing back into his head

You could almost see sugar plums dance in his head

Yeah, Christmas came rushing back into his head

Into his tousled-haired, four-year-old head                        music & lyrics by:

In a song.                                                                        Chuck Pelletier