Christmas Through Your Eyes – English Lyrics

• By: Lady A

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a heartwarming journey back to the magic of childhood Christmases with Lady A's "Christmas Through Your Eyes." This beautiful country ballad offers a chance to connect with English through its clear, emotional storytelling and relatable themes of family and nostalgia. Listen closely to how the lyrics paint vivid pictures of holiday memories, offering insights into common English phrases used to describe festive joy and the special bond between parents and children during this enchanting time of year. Its gentle harmonies and evocative language make it a perfect song for immersing yourself in the spirit of the season and expanding your English vocabulary.

[English]

(tape winding)

(slow music)

- [Camera Person 1] Say, "Ho, ho, ho."

- Ho, ho, ho.

- [Camera Person 1] Merry Christmas.

- Merry Christmas.

- [Camera Person 1] I got on my Santa Claus hat.

- Oh.

♪ Ooh ♪

(slow music)

♪ Watching you from the front porch playing ♪

♪ Bundled up under snowflakes falling ♪

♪ It takes me back to when I was a kid ♪

♪ Sliding down the driveway on a trash can lid ♪

♪ When the only thing that mattered was counting the days ♪

♪ Till Santa came ♪

♪ I'm seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

♪ Yeah, it's been a while ♪

♪ The joy and wonder of your smile ♪

♪ Such a precious child ♪

♪ Suddenly I'm drifting back in time ♪

♪ Seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

(little girl singing)

(slow music)

♪ Everyone in their reindeer jammies ♪

♪ Cuddled up, watching homemade movies ♪

♪ You look up and ask, "Is that one you?" ♪

♪ "Yeah, that was me back in '92" ♪

♪ And I still remember how hard it was to fall asleep ♪

♪ On Christmas Eve ♪

♪ I'm seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

♪ Yeah, it's been a while ♪

♪ The joy and wonder of your smile ♪

♪ Such a precious child ♪

♪ Suddenly I'm drifting back in time ♪

♪ Seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

(slow music)

(drums banging)

(slow music)

♪ This year there's an innocence you've helped me to find ♪

♪ Oh, I'm... ♪

♪ I'm seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

♪ Yeah, it's been a while ♪

♪ The joy and wonder of your smile ♪

♪ Such a precious child ♪

♪ And suddenly I'm drifting back in time ♪

♪ Seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

(slow music)

♪ Ooh, Christmas through your eyes ♪

♪ Mm, mm, mm ♪

(slow music)

♪ As they shouted out with glee, ♪

♪ Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, ♪

♪ You'll go down in history ♪

- [Camera person 2] Yay!

Is this your Madonna imitation,

laying down on the stage?

(laughing)

(tape winding)

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪ Watching you from the front porch playing ♪

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense

  ➔ The phrase 'Watching you' uses the present continuous tense to describe an action happening at the moment of speaking, emphasizing the ongoing nature of the observation.

• ♪ It takes me back to when I was a kid ♪

  ➔ Present Simple with 'take back' idiom

  ➔ The phrase 'It takes me back' uses the present simple with the idiom 'take back' to express the idea of being transported to a past memory.

• ♪ Till Santa came ♪

  ➔ Past Simple with 'till'

  ➔ The phrase 'Till Santa came' uses the past simple with 'till' to indicate a past action that occurred up to a certain point in time.

• ♪ I'm seeing Christmas through your eyes ♪

  ➔ Present Continuous with 'be seeing'

  ➔ The phrase 'I'm seeing' uses the present continuous to emphasize the ongoing action of perceiving Christmas from another's perspective.

• ♪ Such a precious child ♪

  ➔ Predicate Adjective

  ➔ The phrase 'Such a precious child' uses a predicate adjective to describe the subject 'child' with the quality of being precious.