All Is Well (Christmas Single) – Brad Peterson

“All Is Well” was recorded in a garden-shed studio…

Notes: Brad describes the song’s inspiration as such:

“There’s a word in Portuguese: sau·da·de / souˈdädə;  plural noun: saudades

a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia…

If we’re fortunate, as we get older, we may recall in wistful reverie -an idyllic Christmas season surrounded by loved ones. For me, that blissful time, before experience and loss, can hurt to contemplate. Rather than the melancholic tendencies I’ve often fallen to, this year I choose to celebrate in fond remembrance, those absent loved ones.”

Lyrics:

It’s twenty-five of twelve and all is well
Yet there seems there’s been something lost
The absent ones we grieve On a Christmas eve
Sparkle in the crystalline frost
Come this late December -Recall when we were all together
We’ll toast the one who’ve come and gone
Ribbons on the wreath -Lights are strung on trees
Kiss me underneath mistletoe
Happy on our way -On a Christmas day
Memories buried deep in the frost
Come this late December -Recall when we were all together
We’ll toast the one who’ve come and gone
And if the wind blows -Like the ghosts of Christmas past
If come a long snow in a wintery blast
We’ll hold fast…
It’s twenty-five of twelve and all is well
Yet there seems there’s been something lost
The absent ones we grieve On a Christmas eve
Sparkle in the crystalline frost
Come this late December -Recall when we were all together
We’ll toast the one who’ve come and gone…