Grown Up Christmas List
A Grown-Up's Holiday Prayer: Healing Hearts and Embracing Love
Lyrics
Do you remember me
Reflecting on the past, asking if there's recollection of the speaker
I sat upon your knee
Recalling sitting on Santa's lap as a child
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies
Expressing childhood dreams conveyed through letters to Santa
Well I'm all grown up now
Acknowledging adulthood but seeking guidance
And still need help somehow
Admitting the continued need for assistance despite being grown up
I'm not a child but my heart still can dream
Emphasizing the enduring ability to dream despite adulthood
So here's my lifelong wish
Presenting a significant, lifelong wish
My grown up Christmas list
Revealing the grown-up Christmas list
Not for myself but for a world in need
Clarifying the wish is not personal but for the world's benefit
No more lives torn apart
Desiring an end to lives being torn apart
That wars would never start
Expressing a hope for the prevention of wars
And time would heal all hearts
Believing in the healing power of time for all hearts
And everyone would have a friend
Wishing for universal companionship
And right would always win
Expressing a desire for righteousness to prevail
And love would never end, no
Yearning for endless love
This is my grown up Christmas list
Reiterating the grown-up Christmas list
As children we believe
Reflecting on childhood beliefs
The grandest sight to see
Highlighting the joy of discovering gifts under the tree
Was something lovely wrapped beneath the tree
Acknowledging the limitations of material gifts
But Heaven only knows
Stressing the inefficacy of superficial items to heal
That packages and bows
Recognizing that true healing goes beyond superficial wrapping
Can never heal a heartached human soul
Expressing a desire for an end to lives torn apart (repeated)
No more lives torn apart
Reiterating the hope for no wars (repeated)
That wars would never start
Reaffirming the belief in time healing all hearts (repeated)
And time would heal all hearts
Restating the wish for universal friendship (repeated)
And everyone would have a friend
Reiterating the desire for righteousness to prevail (repeated)
And right would always win
Reaffirming the longing for endless love (repeated)
And love would never end, no
Reiterating the grown-up Christmas list (repeated)
This is my grown up Christmas list
Summarizing the wish for a world of peace and love
What is this illusion called the innocence of youth
Questioning the concept of the innocence of youth
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth
Suggesting that belief may be necessary to find truth
No more lives torn apart
Reiterating the desire to end lives being torn apart (repeated)
That wars would never start
Reaffirming the hope for no wars (repeated)
And time would heal all hearts
Reaffirming the belief in time healing all hearts (repeated)
And everyone would have a friend
Restating the wish for universal friendship (repeated)
And right would always win
Reiterating the desire for righteousness to prevail (repeated)
And love would never end, no
Reaffirming the longing for endless love (repeated)
This is my grown up Christmas list
Reiterating the grown-up Christmas list (repeated)
This is my only lifelong wish
Emphasizing that the Christmas list is a lifelong wish
This is my grown up Christmas list
Reiterating that the grown-up Christmas list is the only lifelong wish
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