All Night Diner (Christmas Eve) Lyrics

All night diner, Christmas eve

Outside this window winter shows what she can be

The trains stopped running an hour ago

This night's been silenced by ice and snow

But inside this diner the kitchen is warm

Turkey dinners soup so warm

Inside this diner where we'll stay

And watch Christmas Eve be Christmas Day

The waitress takes my order she calls me hon

If not for this blizzard her shift would be done

I don't mind she says, I learned long ago

When God throws wrenches, she winks, go with the snow

The guy at counter next sitting next to me says

Amen to that, silently

I give him a nod and raise my coffee cup

Here's to knowing when to give up, it's time

Inside this diner the kitchen is warm

Turkey dinners soup so warm

Inside this diner where we'll stay

And watch Christmas Eve be Christmas Day

Corner booth sits a family

Was this their Christmas plan, did they have somewhere else to be

All settled in, busboy's cleared their dishes

They hold hands, make Christmas wishes

Dad says, this year's been tough, it's a fitting end

Mom laughs, if nothing else we have learned how to bend

Those kids give that side eye glance to each other

A teenage thing between a sister and brother

But inside this diner the kitchen is warm

Turkey dinners soup so warm

Inside this diner where we'll stay

And watch Christmas Eve be Christmas Day

The cook comes from the kitchen and says attention please

We're all here together it's Christmas eve

Hey I'm Joe, let's learn each other's names

We stopped being strangers as we all did the same

Now every Christmas, I never forget

Finding refuge, cold and wet and broken

What happened next, hard to believe

There was magic in that all night diner Christmas Eve

All night diner, Christmas Eve