One Last Christmas

It's the news that no one hopes for 
Every parent's greatest fear 
Finding out the child you love so much 
Might not make it through the year 
Now the thought of spending 
Christmas 
Without him just feels wrong 
They've been praying for a miracle 
Now they're praying he can just hold on 
For one last 
Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They'd give anything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
Middle of 
September 
Still seventy degrees 
Daddy climbs up in the attic 
Brings down candles 
Hangs the lights on all the trees 
Then the neighbors started asking 
And pretty soon word got around 
First it was the neighborhood 
Before too long they lit up that whole town 
For one last 
Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They'd give anything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
Twenty-seventh of 
October His time was wearing thin 
Friends and family, even strangers 
That they didn't even know 
Brought presents in 
He was weak but he was smiling 
Like there was nothing even wrong 
They said he wouldn't make it 
Looks like he got to see it after all 
One last Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They gave everything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
One last Christmas

It's the news that no one hopes for 
Every parent's greatest fear 
Finding out the child you love so much 
Might not make it through the year 
Now the thought of spending 
Christmas 
Without him just feels wrong 
They've been praying for a miracle 
Now they're praying he can just hold on 
For one last 
Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They'd give anything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
Middle of 
September 
Still seventy degrees 
Daddy climbs up in the attic 
Brings down candles 
Hangs the lights on all the trees 
Then the neighbors started asking 
And pretty soon word got around 
First it was the neighborhood 
Before too long they lit up that whole town 
For one last 
Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They'd give anything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
Twenty-seventh of 
October His time was wearing thin 
Friends and family, even strangers 
That they didn't even know 
Brought presents in 
He was weak but he was smiling 
Like there was nothing even wrong 
They said he wouldn't make it 
Looks like he got to see it after all 
One last Christmas, one last time 
One last season when all the world is right 
One more telling of the story 
One more verse of silent night 
They gave everything so he could have 
One last Christmas 
One last Christmas