An Angel's Share - 2003 Remaster

Deep inside this Christmas Eve
 Watching as the hours leave
 Gently drifting in the air
 Shadows of an angel's share
 Christmas lights
 On Christmas nights
 With peace for every man
 Stable scenes
 And evergreens
 With snow still glistening
 Angels grace
 This humble place
 With hopes of our salvation
 Christmas cards
 And snow filled yards
 And children wondering
 Rejoice
 All awaken
 Rejoice
 Quickly hasten
 Rejoice
 For the newborn king
 Rejoice
 For the vision
 Rejoice
 He has given
 Hear the choirs as they sing
 Scrooge returns
 To once more learn
 That Christmas ghosts conspire
 To redeem
 His soul it seems
 But still he hesitates
 To believe
 He's not deceived
 Until this night inspires
 Him to find
 That at this time
 It never is too late
 Rejoice
 All awaken
 Rejoice
 Quickly hasten
 Rejoice
 For the newborn king
 Rejoice
 For the vision
 Rejoice
 He has given
 Hear the choirs as they sing
 And sing
 And sing
 And sign and sing and sing
 Winter dreams
 Her endless scenes
 In endless combinations
 To embrace
 This world of faith
 This world that we now see
 Every year
 It returns here
 With all its variations
 And as the day
 It fades away
 And we once more find that...
 Once again the promise kept
 One by one the angels slept
 So we leave this night in peace
 And the world in gentle sleep
 When she finished the last letter
 From that little stack
 She put each one in its envelope
 And carefully put them back
 Then she sate and thought quite carefully
 About all she had learned
 Realizing that her belief in this night
 Had completely returned
 For if all these grownups she had read
 Had in this night believed
 It could not be possible
 That they had all been deceived
 And she marveled how every letter
 Was signed with a different name
 That in the end it seemed that all
 Their wishes were the same
 That the light that reached our lives
 From that distant Christmas star
 Would make us, if not perfect
 Then perhaps better than who we are
 And suddenly she noticed
 That there was a present there
 He must have come and left it
 When she had gone down the stairs
 Then she realized as for that chimney
 She needn't have worried after all
 For Christmas she had found this night
 Could not be stopped by walls
 Could not be stopped by distance
 Could not be stopped by time
 And if one lived a thousand years
 It would still be there to find
 Now some will say that all these gifts
 Were left by her father or her mother
 But I for one, will always suspect
 It could have been another
 And before she went back down the stairs
 With her fading candlelight
 She found some paper and wrote down
 All that had occurred that night
 And sometime on some distant night
 We really can't say when
 Someone will read that letter
 And this night will live again
 And so our story's over
 And the child returned to bed
 To dream about this magic night
 And where it all had led
 And the Angel who had heard her thoughts
 About what she had learned
 Now realized that his job was done
 And it was time he should return
 And taking back all he had brought
 He returned just in time
 To appear before his Lord
 And tell him what he had left behind
 There were two souls reunited
 On a snow blessed Christmas Eve
 And sleeping safely in her bed
 Was the child who still believed
 And once again the Lord smiled down
 From his heavenly throne
 And took the Angel into his heart
 And whispered, welcome home
 And may you also hear those words
 All through your life
 But may you hear them most of all
 On every Christmas night
 Merry Christmas!
 POST SCRIPT
 And the most magical thing
 About this night we will now reiterate
 That no matter where you are in life
 It never is too late