Please Come Home for Christmas
Christmas Blues: Longing for Love and Homecoming
Lyrics
Bells will be ringing, the glad, glad news
Bells will be ringing, announcing joyful news and celebrations.
Oh what a Christmas to have the blues
Expressing the contrast between the festive season of Christmas and feeling melancholic or sad.
My baby's gone (My baby's gone), I have no friends
Reflecting the singer's loneliness, with the mention of a departed loved one ("baby") and lack of companionship.
To wish me greetings once again
Desiring the return of friends who used to offer holiday greetings in the past.
Choirs will be singing Silent Night
Anticipating traditional Christmas choir performances featuring the song "Silent Night."
Those Christmas carols by candlelight
Imagining the atmosphere of Christmas with carols sung in the warm glow of candlelight.
Please come home for Christmas (please come home)
An earnest plea for the absent loved one to come home for Christmas.
Please come home for Christmas (please come home)
Repetition of the plea, emphasizing the strong desire for the loved one's return.
If not for Christmas by New Year's night
Extending the plea, suggesting that even if not for Christmas, the wish is for the loved one to return by New Year's night.
Friends and relations send salutations
Acknowledging the well-wishes sent by friends and family.
Just as sure as the stars shine above
Expressing certainty in the return of the loved one, symbolized by the constancy of stars shining above.
(Yes, they do)
An affirmation of the previous statement.
This is Christmas, Christmas my dear
Highlighting the significance of the Christmas season and addressing the loved one affectionately.
The time of year to be with the one that you love
Emphasizing that Christmas is a time meant to be spent with the person one loves.
Then won't you tell me?
Pleading for confirmation of the loved one's commitment to stay and not wander away anymore.
You'll never more roam
Reiterating the desire for the loved one to stay close, especially during Christmas.
Christmas and New Year (Christmas and New Year's)
Connecting Christmas and New Year, expressing hope that the loved one will be home for both occasions.
Will find you at home
Asserting the expectation that the loved one will be found at home during the festive season.
There'll be no more sorrow, no grief or pain
Foretelling a future without sorrow, grief, or pain, as the return of the loved one brings happiness.
'Cause I'll be happy (happy) that it's Christmas once again
Concluding with the joyous anticipation of Christmas returning once again, bringing happiness.
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