An Angel`s Share Lyrics

An Angel`s Share lyrics

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 nation

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 sing 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 sat 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 all had been deceived 



And she marveled how though 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