The Glenn Beck Program - December 22, 2025


For a Night, We Were Human ｜ The Christmas Truce


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

64.36085

Word Count

361

Sentence Count

1


Summary

A Bavarian with a Christmas tree, a Scot stepping out from a fight, and history remembers the guns, but heaven recalls the sight when soldiers laid their weapons down and we are human for a night, and we remembered we are here for our light.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Somewhere on the Lees River
00:00:26.160 In the frost of fourteen
00:00:29.020 A weary German officer
00:00:34.500 Riots home of what he's seen
00:00:39.300 Gifts from home at midnight
00:00:44.300 Gingerbread and woolen thread
00:00:49.080 But artillery still thundered
00:00:55.180 As he counted up the dead
00:00:58.660 And just past Christmas morning
00:01:04.400 Through the smoking winter gray
00:01:08.660 A Bavarian raised a pine tree
00:01:14.140 Like a lantern of hope in the hay
00:01:19.620 And across the broken silence
00:01:25.100 Came a shout from Scottish men
00:01:29.900 Kilted Highlanders he wrote
00:01:33.380 Wishing us Christmas once again
00:01:39.120 Who knows how peace begins
00:01:44.600 Maybe one brave voice
00:01:48.100 Maybe one small life
00:01:50.400 On Christmas morning
00:01:52.940 Even enemies
00:01:54.540 Can remember they're human for a night
00:01:59.140 Just for a night
00:02:04.120 We remember we're human for a night
00:02:09.600 A lone Bavarian rifleman
00:02:13.080 A lone Bavarian rifleman
00:02:14.080 Crawled out through the wire
00:02:18.720 Met a scout with cigarettes
00:02:24.200 Where the mud met the fire
00:02:29.000 Soon the trenches empty
00:02:33.600 Men shook hands in no man's land
00:02:39.280 Candles traded for cigars
00:02:44.480 As they helped each other stand
00:02:49.080 And said war was suspended
00:02:54.080 The peace of Christmas had come
00:02:59.020 Even officers exchanging words
00:03:05.240 About daughters' gifts and homes
00:03:09.300 And in the ruins of commons
00:03:14.500 A monastery without a roof
00:03:19.200 They sang silent night together
00:03:24.120 A fragile holy proof
00:03:29.280 Who knows how peace begins
00:03:34.580 Maybe one brave voice
00:03:38.100 Maybe one small life
00:03:40.360 On Christmas morning
00:03:42.940 Even enemies
00:03:44.380 Can remember they're human for a night
00:03:49.180 Just for a night
00:03:54.280 We remember we're human for a night
00:03:59.080 But at dawn on the 26
00:04:03.760 The guns began again
00:04:09.100 Window panes rattled he wrote
00:04:13.940 As command reclaimed the men
00:04:19.040 He confessed to his dear Edith
00:04:24.340 We'll be hard to shoot them now
00:04:29.180 But orders are orders in wartime
00:04:34.500 Even when your heart says no
00:04:36.960 Not after this, not now
00:04:41.560 Who knows how peace begins
00:04:44.820 Who knows how peace begins
00:04:46.200 Maybe one brave voice
00:04:48.400 Maybe one small life
00:04:50.400 A Bavarian with a Christmas tree
00:04:53.440 A Scot stepping out from a fight
00:04:55.840 And history remembers the guns
00:04:58.240 But heaven recalls the sight
00:05:01.500 When soldiers laid their weapons down
00:05:06.580 And we're human
00:05:11.680 And we're human for a night
00:05:15.620 For a night
00:05:17.760 Just for a night
00:05:24.960 We remembered we're here for our light