About the lyrics of “Christmas Time with You”

“Christmas Time with You” – meaning of the lyrics, by Paul Robert Thomas. This original song is featured in the opening scene of the Hallmark film Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane

This song was cowritten by Paul Robert Thomas (lyrics) and Angela Predhomme (music). Lyrics below.

So, you don’t just sit down and write lyrics, it’s not like going to work 9 – 5 and with me it usually starts with an image or a scene, in this case a Christmas card scene in my head. The scenes can come to you at any time and anywhere and can be sparked by something you’ve experienced or something someone says, a newspaper article or a story on the TV news etc.

This scene starts with a woman living in a snow-covered wooden cabin that’s just outside of town, but she’s not woods folk or a hillbilly. You can see the town that’s covered in a thick blanket of snow from the cabin window as the snow falls outside and, inside the cabin, she has guests waiting for the Christmas feast to be served.      (cont’d below)

This is one of my ‘straight’ sets of lyrics insomuch as there are no double-entendres introduced as I usually use with other lyrics although one empty seat is purposefully kept at the festive table, in this case to remember her partner who fell while serving in Afghanistan and despite her hopes, won’t be coming back and the empty chair also represents loss and sorrow. The empty chair at the table obviously amplifies him missing but also is reflective of a Christian Polish Christmas tradition to leave an empty chair at the table to represent our wiliness to take in an extra guest, alluding to Mary and Joseph finding there was no place for them, ‘no room in the Inn’ in which to give birth to baby Jesus. It is also a Jewish tradition of both leaving an empty chair and of pouring an extra cup of wine at Passover ready for The Messiah to return and drink it. On a more contemporary note, President Obama left an empty seat in his 2016 State of The Nation speech to symbolize all of the victims of gun violence who were gone and wouldn’t return.

As the story progresses, she starts to remember how they used to spend past Christmas’s together, hugging each other, playing around in the snow, watching the sun go down and eating mince pies and drinking red wine and beer together and she sings in the chorus that she wants her partner back to spend Christmas time with him/her, ‘I want Christmas time with you’.

She then asks Father Christmas for her present, it’s ‘Something only Angels can bring’ – to have her partner back home with her so that she would then stop ‘Feeling sad, hurting and blue’, she wants to spend Christmas time with him/her like they always used to and she only wants to spend it with him/her.

The song is dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones serving abroad while serving their country and are sadly missed, especially at Christmas time.

Paul Robert Thomas 22/11/18

LYRICS: Christmas Time With You

Look out your window, baby, where the snow is falling down
There’s a thick white blanket covering all of this town
Everyone is inside, they’re getting ready to eat
By the table I keep one empty seat
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It’s another Christmas time without you

I wanna hold you so close and never, ever let go
We’ll go walking and play around in the snow
We’ll watch the sun go down and then the moon appear
We’ll eat mince pies and drink red wine and beer
Then we’ll cuddle closer, like we just love to do
Oh baby, I wanna spend Christmas time with you

Christmas time with you
I want Christmas time with you

I ask Father Christmas for just one little thing
It’s something only the angels can bring
To see you walk on in here now, through that creaky old door
I couldn’t want for anything more
It would stop me feeling sad, hurting and blue
Oh Baby, I wanna spend Christmas time with you

Christmas time with you
I want Christmas time with you
My Christmas should be with you

Songwriters: Paul Robert Thomas & Angela Predhomme
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