Katy's Christmas Card
Homebound Hearts: A Christmas Tale of Love and Reunion
Lyrics
The whole town was closing down early For another Christmas Eve
The entire town was closing early in preparation for another Christmas Eve.
The bright colored lights,
Description of bright colored lights.
From the neighbor's front window
The lights were visible from the neighbor's front window.
Were bringing back warm memories.
The lights triggered warm memories for the person.
He thought of his wife and little Katey In the house on the far side of town As he got to the door,
Reflections on the narrator's wife and daughter, Katey, in a house on the far side of town.
He opened his mailbox
The narrator opened his mailbox.
And read the one card he found
He found and read the one Christmas card he received.
It Said:
Introduction to the content of the card.
There's no place like home for Christmas There's no better feeling I know
The card expresses the sentiment that there's no place like home for Christmas.
With presents 'round the tree
Reference to presents around the Christmas tree.
And your whole family
Emphasizes the importance of being with your whole family.
And Christmas won't be Christmas
Highlighting the significance of family for a complete Christmas experience.
If you're not comin' home
Christmas feels incomplete without the person addressed in the card.
Katey ran up to her momma
Katey shares the card with her lonely mother.
Who was sittin' all alone and feeling sad And said ""Here's a card
Describes the mother as alone and feeling sad.
The mailman just brought you.
Katey informs her mother about the card delivered by the mailman.
I wonder, could it be from dad?""
Katey wonders if the card is from her dad.
It read:
Introduction to the content of the second card.
There's no place like home for Christmas There's no better feeling I know
Reiteration of the sentiment that there's no place like home for Christmas.
With presents 'round the tree
Reference to presents around the Christmas tree in the second card.
And your whole family
Emphasizes the importance of being with your whole family in the second card.
And Christmas won't be Christmas
Highlighting the significance of family for a complete Christmas experience in the second card.
If I'm not comin' home
Christmas feels incomplete without the person addressed in the second card.
All it took was one kiss in the doorway They could feel that old feeling again The look in their eyes
One kiss in the doorway rekindles old feelings for the couple.
So loving and tender
Description of the loving and tender look in the couple's eyes.
Was just like it was back then Katey watched them together And she brushed a tear drop away And smiled as she thought
Katey watches her parents together, reminiscent of the past.
Of those two Christmas cards She mailed just yesterday
Katey reflects on the significance of the two Christmas cards she sent the day before.
She cried:
Katey expresses her emotions with a cry.
There's no place like home for Christmas There's no better feeling I know
Reiteration of the sentiment that there's no place like home for Christmas.
With presents 'round the tree
Reference to presents around the Christmas tree in the third card.
And your whole family
Emphasizes the importance of being with your whole family in the third card.
Now this Christmas can be Christmas 'Cause everybody's home
The narrator states that now Christmas can truly be Christmas because everybody is home.
Now this Christmas can be Christmas 'Cause everybody's home
The narrator reiterates the idea that this Christmas is complete because everyone is home.
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