Jesus to a Child – English Lyrics

• By: George Michael

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Kindness in your eyes

I guess you heard me cry

You smiled at me like Jesus to a child

...

I'm blessed I know

Heaven sent and heaven stole

You smiled at me like Jesus to a child

And what have I learned from all this pain

I thought I never feel the same about anyone or anything again

But now I know

When you find a love

When you know that it exists

Then the lover that you miss

Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved

When you know it holds such bliss

Then the lover that you kissed

Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

...

Sadness in my eyes

No one guessed or no one tried

You smiled at me like Jesus to a child

...

Loveless and cold

With your last breath you saved my soul

You smiled at me like Jesus to a child

And what have I learned from all these tears

I've waited for you all those years

Then just when it began he took your love away

But I still say

When you find a love

When you know that it exists

Then the lover that you miss

Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved

When you know it holds such bliss

Then the lover that you kissed

Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

So the words you could not say

I'll sing them for you

And the love we would have made

I'll make it for two

For every single memory

Has become a part of me

...

You will always be my love

...

Well I've been loved so I know just what love is

And the lover that I kissed is always by my side

...

Oh the lover I still miss... was Jesus to a child

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
kindness /ˈkaɪndnəs/ B1	noun - The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
cry /kraɪ/ A1	verb - To shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow. noun - A sound made by crying, especially a loud one.
smile /smaɪl/ A1	verb - To form one's features into a pleased, kind, or amused expression, with the corners of the mouth turned up. noun - A pleased, kind, or amused expression, with the corners of the mouth turned up.
child /tʃaɪld/ A1	noun - A young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
blessed /blɛsɪd/ B1	adjective - Highly favored or fortunate; having divine favor.
stole /stoʊl/ B1	verb - (Past tense of steal) To take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
pain /peɪn/ A1	noun - Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury. Also, mental or emotional suffering.
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - An intense feeling of deep affection. verb - To feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone).
exist /ɪɡˈzɪst/ B1	verb - To have actual being; be real.
lover /ˈlʌvər/ B1	noun - A person who is in a sexual or romantic relationship with someone.
miss /mɪs/ A1	verb - To feel the absence of (someone or something) with regret.
cold /koʊld/ A1	adjective - Of or at a low or relatively low temperature. noun - A common respiratory infection, or cold weather.
bliss /blɪs/ C1	noun - Perfect happiness; great joy.
comfort /ˈkʌmfərt/ B1	verb - To make (someone) feel less unhappy; console. noun - A state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint.
hope /hoʊp/ A1	noun - A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. verb - To want something to happen or be true and think that it is possible.
sadness /ˈsædnəs/ B1	noun - The quality or state of being sad; sorrow.
loveless /ˈlʌvləs/ B2	adjective - Without love or affection; not feeling or inspiring love.
breath /brɛθ/ A2	noun - The air taken into or expelled from the lungs.
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being, regarded as immortal.
memory /ˈmɛməri/ A2	noun - The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Also, a recollection of an event or person.

Key Grammar Structures

• You smiled at me like Jesus to a child

  ➔ "Like" for comparison

  ➔ The word "like" is used here as a preposition to compare an action (smiling) to something else (Jesus smiling to a child), meaning "in the same way as".

• Heaven sent and heaven stole

  ➔ Ellipsis / Parallel structure with implied auxiliaries

  ➔ This is an example of ellipsis, where words are intentionally omitted for conciseness or poetic effect. The full sentence would be "Heaven **has** sent and heaven **has** stole (or **stolen**)." The auxiliary verb "has" is implied before both verbs. Note the poetic license with "stole" instead of "stolen" (past participle).

• I thought I never feel the same about anyone or anything again

  ➔ Reporting thoughts with omitted "that" and "would"

  ➔ This line reports a past thought. The standard grammatical construction would be "I thought **that** I **would** never feel..." In informal language and song lyrics, "that" is often omitted. Additionally, the modal verb "would" is sometimes omitted after verbs of thinking, especially when referring to a future event from a past perspective.

• When you find a love... Will come to you...

  ➔ First Conditional (Type 1) with "When"

  ➔ This structure uses "When" instead of "If" to introduce a condition that is likely to happen, followed by a future simple tense in the main clause. It describes a general truth or a probable future event.

• When you've been loved

  ➔ Present Perfect Passive

  ➔ The structure "have/has + been + past participle" is used to form the present perfect passive voice. It indicates an action that happened at an unspecified time in the past, or started in the past and continues to have relevance in the present, where the subject is the receiver of the action.

• I've waited for you all those years

  ➔ Present Perfect Simple for duration

  ➔ The present perfect simple is used here with "for + duration" ("all those years") to describe an action that started in the past and continued up to the present moment, emphasizing the length of time.

• Then just when it began he took your love away

  ➔ "Just when" for emphasis on timing

  ➔ The phrase "just when" is used to emphasize that something happened precisely at the same moment or immediately after another event, often implying a sense of suddenness or irony.

• So the words you could not say, I'll sing them for you

  ➔ "So" as a conjunction for consequence + Relative Clause

  ➔ "So" is used here as a conjunction to introduce a result or consequence of the preceding idea (implied: since you could not say them). The phrase "the words you could not say" is a relative clause with the relative pronoun "that" or "which" omitted.

• And the love we would have made, I'll make it for two

  ➔ Third Conditional structure (unrealized past) in a relative clause

  ➔ The phrase "we would have made" is part of a relative clause describing "the love." It uses the past perfect modal "would have + past participle," typical of the Third Conditional, to refer to an action or situation that was possible in the past but did not happen.

• For every single memory Has become a part of me

  ➔ "For" as a conjunction meaning "because" + "every single" + singular noun

  ➔ Here, "for" acts as a conjunction, providing a reason or explanation for the preceding statement, similar to "because." "Every single" emphasizes each individual item in a group, and it is always followed by a singular noun and a singular verb.