What Child Is This?

What child is this
 Who laid to rest
 That i now find here sleeping?
 Do angels keep the dreams we seek
 While our hearts lie bleeding?
 Could this be christ the king
 Whose every breath the angels bring?
 Could this be the face of god, this child, the son i once carried?
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 What child is this
 Who is so blessed he changes all tomorrows?
 Replacing tears with reborn years
 In hearts once dark and hollow
 Could this be christ the king
 Whose every breath the angels bring?
 Could this be the face of god, this child, the son i once carried?
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 In the dead of the night
 As his life slips away
 As he reads by the light
 Of a star faraway
 Holding on
 Holding off
 Holding out
 Holding in
 Could you be this old
 And have your life just begin?
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 It begins
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 Tell me how many times can this story be told
 After all of these years it should all sound so old
 But it somehow rings true in the back of my mind
 As i search for a dream that words can no longer define
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 And the time
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 And the time and the years
 And the tears and the cost
 And the hopes and the dreams
 Of each child that is lost
 And the whisper of wings
 In the cold winter's air
 As the snow it comes down
 And visions appear everywhere
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 In the air
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 In the dead of the night
 As his life slips away
 As he reads by the light
 Of a star faraway
 Holding on
 Holding off
 Holding out
 Holding in
 Could you be this old
 And have your life just begin
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 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 It begins
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 It begins
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 It begins
 Reading by the light of a lost christmas day
 It begins