My 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,
 But still need help somehow.
 I'm not a Chile 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:
 No more lives torn apart,
 And wars would never start,
 And time would heal all hearts.
 Ev'ry one would have a friend,
 That 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 the tree.
 Well, heaven surely knows
 That packages and bows
 Can never heal a hurting human soul.
 No more lives torn apart,
 And wars would never start,
 And time would heal all hearts.
 Ev'ry one would have a friend,
 That right would always win,
 And love would never end:
 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!
 There'd be,
 No more lives torn apart,
 And wars would never start,
 And time would heal all hearts.
 Ev'ry one would have a friend,
 That right would always win,
 And love would never end:
 This is my grown-up Christmas list,
 This is my only lifelong wish,
 This is my Grown-up Christmas list!