Peace for Christmas 2025

An alternative Christmas Carol wishing you Peace for Christmas 2025

As I walk through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself, is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred and misery?

And each time I feel like this inside
There’s one thing I wanna know

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?

And as I walk on through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So, where are the strong and who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony?

‘Cause each time I feel it slipping away
Just makes me wanna cry

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?

So, where are the strong and who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony, sweet harmony?

‘Cause each time I feel it slipping away
Just makes me wanna cry

What’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding?

This much-covered song was written by Nick Lowe in 1974 and first appeared on the album The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz.

The mural of the same name by Adam Cvijanovic, 2024-2025, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.