Lyrics from CD booklet
"Hey." The Christmas curtain falls on lawbreakers who
Pave the way for thoughtless folks like me and J who'd
Pay, but can't afford the finer things in life so we heist
Them all. We're criminals that never break the law!
"So," to all you "frowns" go down to town
Square and get some action. From the
Christmas girl that lives inside your womb.
She's always there I think that I'm certain.
You pay to get behind the Christmas curtain......
You're the criminal that never breaks the law!
Length of album version: 4:49
Written by: Jim James
Also appears on: My Morning Jacket Does Xmas Fiasco Style (2000), My Morning Jacket live at 9:30 club (2002), Okonokos (2006)
Band quotes
"That song was about a time when we were very poor and our old drummer and myself would go into various departments stores and steal things [laughs] and give 'em to people, kind of in a Robin Hood way. Give 'em to people including ourselves, 'cause we didn't have any money and we thought it was okay to steal [laughs] like VCRs and stuff from [more laughs] departments stores. We thought we were being like vigilantes for justice. Uhm, we'd take like a VCR and a couple of Walkmens and some batteries and stuff and put them on the bottom of the cart and then put a big bag on dog food on top of 'em all and then have the cashier woman scan the dog food and usually they wouldn't see all the [laughs] hundreds of dollars of electronics underneath. That's why the song kind of references being a criminal that doesn't break the law at Christmas time."- Jim James
(My Morning Jacket: iTunes Session interview, December 2011)
