Grown Up Christmas List

Do you remember me

I sat upon your knee

I wrote to you with childhood fantasies

Well, I'm all grown up now

Can you still help somehow

I'm not a child but my heart can still dream

So here's my lifelong wish

My grown-up Christmas list

Not for myself but for a world in need

No more lives torn apart

That war's would never start

And time would heal all hearts

And everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end

This is my grown-up Christmas list

As children we believed

The grandest sight to see

Was something lovely wrapped beneath our tree

Well, heaven surely knows

Packages and bows

Could never heal a hurting human soul

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth