Grown-Up Christmas List

Do you remember me?

I sat upon your knee

I wrote to you with childhood fantasies

Well, I'm a 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 all hearts

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 our tree, hey-yeah

But Heaven only knows

That packages and bows

Can never heal a hurting human soul, oh

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

And time would heal all hearts, yeah

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

Ooh, yeah

Ooh (ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

And time would heal all hearts (that would heal every heart)

Everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end

'Cause this is my grown-up Christmas list

This is my only life-long wish

This our grow-up Christmas list