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Christmas Like A Child
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Oct 30, 2026 updated
Christmas Offerings album
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Song Meaning
Nostalgia drives the opening: the singer admits the season "has felt so empty, oh for quite a while" and asks to feel Christmas "like a child" again. The memories are small and domestic, snowflakes falling, brothers and sisters gathered around the fire, everyone singing "Away In A Manger."
The second half turns from sentiment to diagnosis. "I can't say / Just when I lost my way," the narrator confesses, then heads back toward a day that "meant everything." What waits there is not scenery but a person: "It's all about Jesus, asleep in the straw," an infant, a King, "this Savior for all." Bells become unnecessary because the narrator will "join with angels singing / Gloria."
Luke 2 supplies the scene behind that line, the Savior announced in verse 11 and the heavenly host praising God in verses 13-14. Jesus's words in Matthew 18:3 about becoming like little children fit the song's longing, which treats childlike wonder as something to receive again rather than manufacture.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team
I want to feel Christmas, how it used to be
With all of its wonder falling on me
This season has felt so empty, oh for quite a while
I want to feel Christmas like a child
I want to see snowflakes fall to the ground
My brothers and sisters all gathered around
Singing "Away In A Manger" as we sit by the fire
I want to feel Christmas like a child
It's been so long now, I can't say
Just when I lost my way
But I'm going back to how it was (like a child)
When this day meant everything
And we spent our time remembering
The baby Child born for us
It's all about Jesus, asleep in the straw
This infant, this King, this Savior for all
So I don't need bells to be ringing
'Cause I'll join with angels singing
Gloria
And I can feel Christmas like a child
I want to feel Christmas like a child...