[Intro: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"soft breathy legato, delicate sustained notes", mood:"wistful, intimate, wintery", effects:["light-reverb"]}] Snow against the window, lights along the street, Something in the stillness feels different to me. [Verse 1: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"gentle clear vocal, restrained emotion", mood:"reflective, tender"}] I remember waiting for this time of year, Counting every evening till Christmas would appear. Somewhere I stopped looking, somewhere I grew old, But tonight the air is carrying something I still know. [Pre-Chorus: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"soft rising legato, no belt", mood:"quiet realization"}] Maybe it was always here, Waiting underneath the years... [Chorus: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"warm soaring head voice, curved melodic phrases, gentle sustained hook", mood:"wonder, nostalgia, emotional warmth", effects:["soft-vocal-double","warm-reverb"]}] I feel it... Christmas, Coming back to me. Like a light I almost lost, glowing quietly. I feel it... Christmas, Somewhere in my heart. Like a memory waking in the dark. I feel it... Christmas. [Verse 2: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"intimate storytelling, smooth legato", mood:"nostalgic, warming"}] Footprints in the snowfall, voices down the hall, Old familiar pictures hanging on the wall. Nothing lasts forever, everything will change, Still there’s something in December that somehow stays the same. [Pre-Chorus: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"gentle ascending phrase", mood:"hopeful realization"}] Maybe growing older means finding what the season means... [Chorus: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"warm sustained vocal, emotional but restrained", mood:"tender, hopeful"}] I feel it... Christmas, Coming back to me. In the faces gathered close, in every memory. I feel it... Christmas, Softly in my heart. Like a little light inside the dark. I feel it... Christmas. [Bridge: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"near-whisper growing into open head voice", mood:"sincere, emotional"}] It isn't just the snowfall. It isn't just the lights. It's knowing someone waits for you somewhere tonight. And maybe all the magic I thought I'd left behind... Was never really gone. It just changed with time. [Final Chorus: {voice:"female lead solo", style:"full war]()
