I really like the melody of it and the meaning behind the lyrics. To me, they paint a very vivid picture and it is one that shows the truth in the world today. This song was originally released by Amy Grant in 1992 and in some ways we have moved on a lot from that time. In others, we haven't and so the song is still hauntingly relevant.
The other thing about this song is that, to me, Christmas has become other commercialised and we have lost it's true meaning. That is something that annoys me a lot. The lyrics of this song acknowledge that fact ~ Heaven surely knows / Packages and bows / can never heal a hurting human soul ~ and comes back to include the stuff that matters; the stuff Christmas is supposed to be about.
So basically, I just love this song.
Do you remember me?
I sat upon you're knee
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies
Well, I'm all grown up now
And still need help somehow
I'm not a child but my heart still can dream
So here's my life-long wish
My grown-up Christmas list
Not for myself, but for a world in need
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
and time would heal the heart
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown-up Christmas List
As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely, wrapped beneath the tree
Well, Heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal a hurting human soul
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal the heart
And everyone would have a friend
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown-up Christmas List
What is this illusion called
The innocence of youth
Maybe only in our blind belief
Can we ever find the truth
No more lives torn apart
That wars would never start
And time would heal the heart
And right would always win
And love would never end, oh
This is my grown-up Christmas List
This is my only life-long wish
This is my grown-up Christmas List
~ Amy Grant
1 comment:
hello angel. what a nice gift it is to come and visit and have your blog all dressed up for the holidays. thank you. the song is very touching indeed and the lyrics are beautiful and is the message...you are right of course , the holidays are overly commercialized and it is so easier to loose sight of the real meaning of the season.
so as we start the month of december, may you, may i, may all join in to celebrate a time of family, love, frienship and most of all the Gift of God.
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