I
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee.
I wrote to you with childhood fantasies.

II
Well, I'm all grown-up now.
Can you still help somehow?
I'm not a child, but my heart still can dream.

III
So here's my lifelong wish,
my grown-up Christmas list,
not for myself, but for a world in need:

REFRAIN
No more lives torn apart,
that wars would never start,
and time would heal all hearts.

Every man would have a friend,
and right would always win,
and love would never end.

This is my grown-up Christmas list.

BRIDGE
What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in their blind belief can we ever find the truth.

IV
So here's my lifelong wish,
my grown-up Christmas list,
not for myself, but for a world in need:
There will be (REFRAIN)

CODA
This is my grown-up Christmas list.
This is my only lifelong wish.
This is my grown-up Christmas list