The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (2003 Remaster)

歌詞

Somewhere in the universe, Between this night and God, An angel sat upon a star While thinking very hard To return once more to the Earth He had been assigned And a single gift for all of man He was to leave behind But this gift that he was to leave Could not be taken from the heavenly court And how could he leave something behind If nothing could be brought? Now this was quite a puzzle And he knew not how to start When he suddenly felt a prayer from a child Reach deep into his heart And though his time was limited To this one night of the year He could not ignore this child's request So he decided he would start here For though this night was Christmas Eve And dreams were all about Somewhere down below on Earth He had felt this child begin to doubt A child who should have been asleep Instead was climbing attic stairs With her solitary candle And a single Christmas prayer Now when angels they are called They rarely just appear But more often than not They gently whisper in one's ear And when they whisper to a child On nights when snow still glistens The chances are much stronger still That that child will listen So in this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives Welcome friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child Who spends this night in an attic dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts Now, if you wonder why this child is here With all asleep and Christmas near She's come up here to look for truth In this place closest to the roof For she had heard from friends who feel That nothing on this night is real That no adults truly believe In all these things of Christmas Eve This night that seems to cast a spell In the same world, just tinseled well And as she lay in bed that night She wondered if they might be right And she wondered then who she might ask About this question that had been cast For adults, she had been told, you Are part of this conspiracy But in her mind becoming clear The shadow of a child's idea There was one whose presence alone Would reconfirm what she had known But this man, he was so rarely seen For he only arrived when children dreamed But if what she had believed was right He should appear this very night So on this night with so much at stake She's determined that she would stay awake But then a problem came to mind: It seems that fate had not been kind For their chimney had been closed that year Some bricks might fall, her father feared So she had devised another plan To hear when on the roof he lands So with the ghosts left here by fate Upon this night, she sits and waits Now as I'm sure you all must know When one is waiting, time moves slow And as she wondered what to do (Her options seeming far too few) The angel caused that child to look Behind a yellowed pile of books Among those memories disguised as junk She noticed there a well-worn trunk It was filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath It was filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath Some ornaments, a hand rung phone And records with a gramophone A mix of long-forgotten words With melodies no longer heard All threads of long-forgotten lives But here somehow they had survived These letters that had caught her eye Now in her hands they seemed alive And as each letter she unsealed A small piece of the past was revealed For Christmas weaves a lifelong spell And most of all remembers well And as the child explored the past Once again that spell was cast And as the child began to read Upon this night of Christmas Eve The angel's plan, as you can tell, It was already working well So as the ghosts gently arise In our first song we'll summarize: In this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives Welcome, friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child Who spends this night in attics dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts And so it's here that they must wait Till someone wishes them awake For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve And there near an old looking glass There was a trunk from Christmas past That she had somehow missed before But now decides she will explore 'Twas filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath So as the evening hours leave The child sat down and started to read For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve