The Star's Not on the Tree This Year

Song Description

A young woman faces the first Christmas since her husband was lost in a war.

Song Length 4:09 Genre Unique - Holiday
Lead Vocal Female Vocal Mood Poignant

Lyrics

The Star?s Not on the Tree this Year

Families warm with laughter
Pray for peace on Earth
Prayers won?t bring you back here
Tell me what they?re worth

Christmastime together
Christmastime alone
Your baby needs his father
The one?s he?s never known

The star?s not on the tree this year
No snowman?s on the lawn
Your medals guard the mantle
It?s Christmas and you?re gone

Young and proud and handsome
A tender, loving soul
We made our lives together
Together we were whole

Questions without answers
Snowflakes turn to rain
Loneliness, so bitter cold
Nothing else remains

The star?s not on the tree this year
No snowman?s on the lawn
Your medals guard the mantle
It?s Christmas and you?re gone

Christmas carols fill the air
Glad tidings and good cheer
But all I have?s your photograph
And emptiness and tears

The star?s not on the tree this year
No snowman?s on the lawn
Your medals guard the mantle
It?s Christmas and you?re gone

A gold star?s in the window
To tell the world you?re gone

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