1) "If I tell you, I'd have to kill you, and that's not very Christmas-y."
2) "Darned if I know, maybe somebody I lent money to once."
3) "Don't you have enough to do at the holidays without worrying about something like that?"
4) "Oh, really, who cares? I just know it's not Britney, Beyonce, or Paris Hilton..."
"Take Jesus Shopping" is a serious message delivered with a spoonful of sugar. People are so awful to each other in December, and justify their selfishness as "It's Christmas, I'm busy" as if they were the only ones affected by holiday stress...
The first verse sounds like a 50s TV show theme song (as if Beaver Cleaver's mother sang to you;) the second verse is the children's chorus; and the third verse is when the drum majorette leads the Mighty Marching Elf Drill Team onto the field and all hell breaks loose.
The production is wonderous. Ted Greenberg (a double Grammy winner, for "Standing In The Shadows of Motown,") plays more than 2 dozen instruments on this thing. He is amazing, and wildly talented.
Mo Kekko says "It'd be great to be ranked by Billboard, but what I really want is an A-rating from the National Traffic Safety Administration, for saving a couple of lives on the roads this December."
