Every year I dream, 2016

Julia ♦ December 24, 2023 ♦ 2 Comments

Merry Christmas, everyone! I wish you pleasant dreams tonight, and joy in the morning.

That’s me in 1958, already dreaming my Christmas dream

Lyrics from the song A Christmas Dream by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Recorded by Perry Como
(You can listen to the song and see some beautiful Christmas photos here.)

Watch me now, here I go, all I need’s a little snow
Starts me off, sets the theme, helps me dream my Christmas dream
Every year I dream it, hoping things will change
An end to the crying, the shouting, the dying

And I hope you will dream it too
It’s Christmas, remember?  We’ve got to remember
The whole world needs a Christmas dream
We need it to warm us, to calm us, to love us
To help us to dream our Christmas dream.

I fell in love with this song instantly, on first hearing a bit of it in the movie The Odessa File in 1974.  I searched for a copy of it for years until I finally found it online.  I have listened to it countless times, every Christmas season since.  For me, it captures so many of the emotions I feel at this time every year.  It’s filled with the optimistic merriment of Christmas, but acknowledges wistfully that so many things are not as they should be.  I hope this song will help you dream a few dreams of your own.

This post was first published seven years ago today. The original post, comments and photo are linked, along with two other related posts, below. These links to related posts, and their thumbnail photos, do not appear in the blog feed; they are only visible when viewing the individual posts by clicking on each one. I have no idea why, nor do I know how they choose the related posts. That’s just the way WordPress does things.