Who is that woman dressed as a weed plant in the subway? (Nellie McKay)

Nellie McKay talks on her new single ‘Weed (All I Want for Christmas)’

Lyrics: Nellie McKay’s “Weed (All I Want for Christmas)”

weed (that’s all i want for christmas)
weed (a cradle of good cheer)
weed (a perfect part of this bliss)
every christmas day of the year

comes love
i’m on a rocket ship to nowhere
i got a pocketful of miracles
ain’t got no fare

sweetheart
upon a pond of potent portent
we got a spherical lyrical mystical chimerical
temple of content

walking sideways trying to make my way
anybody up in the club cept the ofay?
it’s that time again
hope & love go jittering
stead of running pell mell best to take a chill pill
we need perspective of sweet remove
let’s get high – it’s a stone groove
little doggie slow it down slow it down
sour willie nelson & a sloeful crown
go to town every race place your faith in the mantra
kwanzaa hannukah don’t forget kwanzaa
leggo ambition nothing but friction
comes from the conviction that your depiction
of yourself requires a manic tension feast
least of all in a setting set for street release
starving deep in the belly Machiavelli’s beast
you want the strife of humankind to finally cease?
start getting sublime on the peaceful leaf

weed (that’s all i want for christmas)
weed (a cradle of good cheer)
weed (a perfect part of this bliss)
every christmas day of the year

one love
we’ll let a kerchief cover our scars
with every scheming demon picture inside
you unchain my heart

fucked up
we’re climbing every silvery stair
& almost getting lost never feels so good
as an unfamiliar tear

why does jimmy carter always got to play the martyr
want to get barack obamarama pardoning the marijuana
tuscarora to bogota – intifada or de nada
put a fatwa on your father if he can’t be fucked to bother
the war on drugs was always designed
to have the kingpins scooping profits
while the victim’s doing time
every mai lai brown eye small fry fall guy
letter from the DI crawling up the crackpipe
cut down in your prime – minimum to life
do a line get a fine must be cause you’re light
native trust – paradise past
take a puff – deport your ass
‘you bet i did – & i enjoyed it’
– white boy who deployed more pot arrests
than any had before for simple pot possession
40% of present penitentiaries
are on a pot-related charge
or charges solely based on weed
these are prison afflictions of the non-addicted
fuck the rigged vote flippin & the prohibition
schedule one HAS GOT TO GO
of the THC to cannabidiol
we’re the largest jailer of the literal slaves
but today’s the day breaking up the gates
whether black puerto rican asian jamaican
yah likkle more big up mi sistren then
what you be tokin round rainbow’s end?

weed (that’s all i want for christmas)
weed (a cradle of good cheer)
weed (a perfect part of this bliss)
every christmas day of the year
weed (that’s all i want for christmas)
weed (a cradle of good cheer)
weed (let’s all smoke pot for christmas)
every christmas day of the year