My personal tradition each year is to listen to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas albums. For the most part, their songs were not something quite to my mom’s taste, so I never played the whole albums for her. It just become my own little custom to take a few moments to listen to each album straight through sometime in December. I just now listened to the first one while making some flowers.
My favorite song on their “Christmas Eve and Other Stories” is “An Angel Returned”. I love the “Kyrie among nations” chorus. You should listen to the song on YouTube if you don’t know it.
An odd tradition for a very non-religious person, but, hey, we’re all full of contradictions!
An Angel Returned
An angel returned
That night through the sky
But time it was short
He had to decideAnd so as he flew
Back over the land
A gift for his Lord
Was there in his handIt was the glow of a light
It was the heart of a song
It was the tear of a child
Where they never belonged
It was the wish of a soul
On an old neon light
And the Lord smiled at him
On that cold winter nightHear the bells ring through the night
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Here as they ring through the nightKyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Hear the bells ring through the nightKyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Hear as they ring through the nightListen to the bells as they ring
Listen to the message they bring
Listen to the sound
As they sing as one voice in the nightHoping that we’ll all understand
Every dream is there in our hands
And for every bell
Let them ring all through the nightKyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Hear the bells ring through the nightKyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Kyrie among nations
Here as they ring through the nightListen to the bells as they ring
Listen to the message they bring
Listen to the sound as they sing
As one voice in the nightHoping that we’ll all understand
Every dream is there in our hands
And for every bell
May they ring all through your lifeSongwriters: Paul O’neill, John Oliva.
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