| Its Christmas time in the city a candle burns inside
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| Children laugh praying Christmas come tonight
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| There’s a noble tree with a star on top
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| A hundred gifts adorn the floor
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| But still the children pray sunrise brings some more
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| A fire burns till it warms the night
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| A cup of joe and a slice of pie
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| Belly full but still hungry inside, belly full but still empty inside
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| Is this all it was meant to be? |
| Colorful lights and a Christmas tree?
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| All my life I believed, it could be what I want it to be
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| Is it only what I see or is it bigger than me?
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| And just outside on the city streets poverty wins the fight
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| A family kneels praying «Jesus come tonight.»
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| Cuz tribulation blew in like a hurricane
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| But no rain came to wash the pain away
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| No bread tonight but they feel his life inside,
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| no bread this time but they feel his life inside
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| Is this all it was meant to be? |
| Colorful lights and a Christmas tree?
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| All my life I believed, it could be what I want it to be
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| Is it only what I see…
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| Cuz the kids on the street pray…
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| Lord I know they won’t let me stay
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| At the fancy place with the fancy name
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| but I heard you might know what that’s like
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| So I thought maybe you could stay with me tonight
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| I ain’t got no cushy bed, a private room where you could lay your head
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| But I’m pretty sure that’s not why you
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| came or why you were born on Christmas day
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| I don’t want just a dazzling tree,
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| I need the one where you hung for me
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| I don’t want some sparkling lights I need your love to light my night
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| I don’t need no fancy place,
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| a wallet full of president Benjamin’s face
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| I don’t want something shiny and new,
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| I need something better all I want is you
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| I need your love I need your life
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| I need everything you are this time your everything good I got inside
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| Is this all it was meant to be? |
| Colorful lights and a Christmas tree?
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| All my life I believed, it could be what I want it to be
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| Is it only what I see or is it bigger than me? |