Grown up Christmas list lyrics

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 somehow

I'm not a child but

my heart still can dream

So here's my life long wish

my grown up Christmas list

not for myself, but

for a world in need

No more lives torn apart

that wars would never start

and time would heal all hearts

And everyone would have a friend

and right would always win

and love would never end, oh

this is my grown up Christmas list

As children we believed

the grandest sight to see

was something lovely wrapped

beneath our free

well heaven surely knows

that packages and bows

can never heal a hurting

hurting human soul

...

What is this illusion called?

the innocence of youth

maybe only in our blind

belief can we ever

find the truth