The Glenn Beck Program - For a Night, We Were Human | The Christmas Truce
Aired: 2025-12-22
Duration: 05:06


=== Just for a Night (04:44) ===

[00:00:22]  Somewhere on the Lees River In the frost of 14 A weary German officer writes home of what he's seen
[00:00:42]  gifts from home at midnight Gingerbread and woolen thread But artillery still thundered As he counted up the dead And just past Christmas morning Through the smoke and winter grave
[00:01:12]  A Bavarian raised a pine tree Like a lantern of hope in the haze And across the broken silence Came a shout from Scottish men Kilted Highlanders, he wrote, wishing us Christmas once again.
[00:02:02]  Just for a night We remember we're human for a night A lone Bavarian rifleman Crawled out through the wire Met a scot with cigarettes
[00:02:26]  Where the mud met the fire Soon the trenches empty Men shook hands in no man's land Candles traded for cigars As they helped each other stand
[00:02:51]  Hand said war was suspended The peace of Christmas had come Even officers exchanging words About daughters, gifts, and home And in the ruins of Cummins A monastery without a roof
[00:03:21]  They sang silent night together A fragile holy proof Who knows how peace begins Maybe one brave voice Maybe one small light on Christmas morning even enemy Can remember they're human for a night
[00:03:52]  Just for a night We remember we're human for a night But at dawn on the 26th The guns began again Window panes rattled he wrote As command reclaimed the men
[00:04:22]  He confessed to his dear Edith We'll be hard to shoot them now But orders are orders in wartime Even when your heart says no
[00:04:39]  Not after this not now Who knows how peace begins Maybe one brave voice Maybe one small light Of the very end with a Christmas tree A Scott's stepping out from a fight And history remembers the guns But heaven recalls the sight When soldiers laid their weapons down