Somewhere in the
Between night and God
An angel sat upon a
While thinking very
To return once more to the He had been And a gift for all of man He was to behind
But this gift that he was to Could not be taken from the court And how could he leave behind If nothing could be
Now this was a puzzle And he not how to start When he suddenly felt a from a child deep into his heart
And though his time was To one night of the year He could not ignore child's request So he he would start here
For though night was Christmas Eve And dreams were all down below on earth He had this child begin to doubt
A child who have been asleep Instead was climbing attic With her solitary And a Christmas prayer
Now, when angels are called They rarely just But often than not They gently whisper in ear
And when they whisper to a On nights snow still glistens The chances are much still That, child, will listen
So in this room where shadows And ghosts that failed learn time Welcome friends, please awhile Our starts with one small child Who spends this in an attic dark Where dreams are stored like hearts
Now, if you wonder why child is here all asleep and Christmas near She's come up here to look for In this place closest to the
For she had heard from who feel That nothing on this night is That no adults truly In all these things of Eve
This night that seems to a spell Is the world, just tinseled well And as she lay in bed that She wondered if might be right
And she then who she might ask About this that had been cast For adults, she had told, you see Are of this conspiracy
But in her becoming clear The of a child's idea
was one whose presence alone Would reconfirm she had known
But man, he was so rarely seen For he only when children dreamed But if what she had was right He should this very night So on night with so much at stake She's determined she would stay awake
But then a problem to mind It seems that had not been kind For chimney had been closed that year Some bricks might fall, her father
So she had another plan To hear when on the he lands So with the ghosts here by fate Upon this she sits and waits
Now as I'm sure you all must When one is waiting, moves slow And as she wondered to do (her options far too few)
The Angel caused that to look a yellowed pile of books Among these memories as junk She there a well worn trunk
It was filled with toys and one old And letters underneath ornaments, a hand rung phone And with a gramophone
A mix of long forgotten With melodies no longer All threads of long forgotten But here somehow had survived
These letters that had her eye Now in her hands seemed alive And as letter she unsealed A small of the past was revealed
For Christmas weaves a long spell And most of all well And as child explored the past Once again that spell was
And as the child to read Upon this night of Eve The Angel's plan, as you can It was already well So as the ghosts gently In our first we'll summarize