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Come Down Off Your High Horse and Meet Us
Charts on the table, markets down
Another restless Christmas night
Then voices rose beneath my window
Singing loud beneath the lights
I heard a crowd, not who they were
Just one more thing I could ignore
Come down off your high horse and meet us
Come hear the stories at your door
Stand beside us, come and greet us
See what you could never see before
We wish you a Merry Christmas
That’s what we came here for
I pulled the curtain, looked below
And faces formed beneath the glow
One stood alone, one held a child
One had little, still could smile
I wondered where they all went home
What roads they walked when they moved on
Come down off your high horse and meet us
Come hear the stories at your door
Stand beside us, come and greet us
See what you could never see before
We wish you a Merry Christmas
That’s what we came here for
I left the window, crossed the hall
Went down the stairs and through the door
I learnt their names, I heard their lives
And shared a laugh I'd missed before
Then someone yelled for figgy pudding
So I brought enough for all
Come down off your high horse and meet us
Come hear the stories at your door
Stand beside us, come and greet us
See what you could never see before
We wish you a Merry Christmas
That’s what we came here for
I heard the noise and wished they'd go
I looked again and saw them more
I opened up and learnt their names
Christmas changed outside my door
Come down off your high horse and meet us
Come hear the stories at your door
Stand beside us, come and greet us
See what you could never see before
We wish you a Merry Christmas
That’s what we came here for
ABOUT THIS SONG
Written and produced by Tasmanian songwriter Jason Bresnehan, Come Down Off Your High Horse and Meet Us is a musical arrangement in the pop-folk genre with a male vocal. The song reimagines the familiar doorstep tradition of We Wish You a Merry Christmas as a story about empathy, social distance and what can happen when people step outside their own concerns and genuinely meet the people around them.
The lyrics follow a person initially absorbed in markets, money and personal concerns who hears Christmas singers outside and dismisses them simply as a crowd. Looking through the window changes that perspective as individual faces emerge and the question arises: “I wondered where they all went home.” The journey from window to doorway becomes a journey from observation to human connection. By going downstairs, learning names and hearing lives, the narrator discovers that empathy begins by standing alongside people rather than looking at them from a distance. “Come down off your high horse and meet us” carries the central message: meeting people, hearing their stories and understanding their circumstances can change how we see both them and ourselves.
The artwork depicts a snow-covered residential street outside a warmly lit house, with a group of people gathered together holding plates of food. The open doorway and shared food reflect the song’s movement from separation to participation, while the gathering outside the house visually represents the moment when strangers at the door become people sharing conversation, food and Christmas together.
This song forms part of the Merry Christmas Collection by Seventh Ribbon Music.
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