Dream Child A Christmas Dream

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[Verse 1]
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In the night Was the dark, In the dark Was the dream
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In the dream Was the Child, And myself There unseen
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In the book was the word, In the word there was truth
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In the truth there was age, In the age there was youth
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And I said to the Child, Do your hands they still bleed
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After all of this time, Do you think there's still need
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But the Child only smiled, And said not a word
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And the snow it came down, As if it hadn't heard

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[Chorus 1]
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And all that night the snow came down
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To heal the scars our lives had found
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And the years that lay broken
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And there upon that bridge of dreams
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Across the night we walked unseen
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With no words ever spoken


[Bridge]
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G    Am   G/B   Am


[Verse 2]
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And then on through that night, We did walk for a while
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And our steps turned to blocks, And the blocks turned to miles
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Then we followed a path, For as far as we could
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Till we found ourselves there, In an evergreen wood
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There were thousands of candles, Upon every tree
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It was beautiful, But there was one mystery
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For with all of those candles, You must understand
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That the only one lit,   Was now there in His hand

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[Chorus 2]
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And there upon that Christmas scene
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The candle wax of melted dreams
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And the years they had taken
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And there's that snow did gently fall
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We one by one relit them all
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Till each dream was awakened

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[Interlude]
Dm/A (strum once)
Dm (arpeggiated once)
2nd, 3rd, 2nd strings of Dm

repeat x2


Am (original pattern) x6 (loud)
D (once)    D (once)
G5    Am7    C    D    x2


[Verse 3]
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And then there to that light, This young Child showed to me
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All the things that he dreamt, All the things that might be
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How for everything given, That something is gained
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Strike one match in the dark, And all the world's not the same


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And then I asked that Child, Why this night has a star
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And he said, "So we'd know, That we could see that far"
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And these candles are wed, To that star's distant light
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And it all came to be,         Upon that long winter's night

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That long winter's night
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That long winter's night


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[Verse 4]
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And when I awoke, well the Child he was gone
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But somewhere in my mind,       I believe he lives on
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And somewhere in my life,  Between here and the end
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On a long winter's night, I will dream him a-gain