Giving Praise in a Quiet Way

I've been thinking about how to welcome--and I do mean it, the welcome--in the new year with some positive spark lighting up the void surrounding it, and this song does it for me. I've written a sermon about it before, but here I'm just going to post the video and lyrics. Let it wash over you and see if you can stop from smiling.

The Sing by Bill Callahan

Drinking while sleeping strangers
Unknowingly keep me company
In the hotel bar
Looking out a window that isn't there
Looking at the carpet and the chairs
Well, the only words I said today are "beer" and "thank you"
Beer, thank you
Beer, thank you
Beer
Giving praise in a quiet way
Like a church
Like a church
Like a church that's far away
I've got limitations like Marvin Gaye
Mortal joy is that way
Outside a train sings its wail song
To a long, long train long, long fone
Then silence comes back alone
High as scaffolding
'Til the wind finds something to ping
When the pinging thing finds the wind
We're all looking for a body
Or a means to make one sing