Grown-Up Christmas List

[Verse 1]

Do you remember me?

I sat upon your 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 lifelong wish

My grown-up Christmas list

Not for myself, but for a world in need

[Chorus]

No more lives torn apart (Torn apart, yeah, yeah)

That wars would never start (Start, oh yeah, yeah)

And time would heal all hearts (All hearts, oh woah, woah)

And everyone would have a friend (Have a friend, yeah, yeah)

And right would always win

And love would never end (No)

This is my grown-up Christmas list

[Post-Chorus]

Oh

[Verse 2]

As children, we believed

The grandest sight to see

Was something lovely wrapped beneath our tree

But Heaven only knows (Only knows, oh)

That packages and bows (Oh)

Can never heal a hurting human soul (Oh)

[Chorus]

Oh, no more lives torn apart (Torn apart, yeah, yeah)

That wars would never start (Would never start, oh yeah)

And time would heal all hearts

And everyone would have a friend (Have a friend, yeah, yeah)

And right would always win

And love would never end (No)

This is my grown-up Christmas list

[Bridge]

What is this illusion called?

The innocence of youth?

Maybe only in our blind belief

Can we ever find the truth

[Chorus]

No more lives torn apart

That wars would never start

And time would heal all hearts

Oh, and everyone would have a friend

And right would always win

And love would never end (No)

This is my grown-up Christmas list

This is my only life I wish

This is my grown-up Christmas list

[Outro]

Oh