If Everyone Believed - David Phelps

It was 1983

On a snowy Christmas Eve

With my family

And the Christmas tree and lights

That was when it all went wrong

Someone turned the TV on

And the evening news

Broadcast the blues that night

But my dad saw my despair

He put his arm around me there

He said, «Let me tell you this

It’s my lifelong Christmas wish»

He said

If everyone believed

Oh, what a happy place it would be

We’d live in peace on earth as a great big family

If everyone believed

Now the years have come and gone

But that Christmas wish lives on

It’s the thing I pray

When the holidays draw near

You see the news is still real sad

And people, they’re both good and bad

But you just might cope

If you spread some hope and cheer

So as we sing 'Joy To The Earth'

And celebrate the Savior’s birth

I pull my family close to me

And tell them how the world could be

If everyone believed

Oh, what a happy place it would be

We’d live in peace on earth as a great big family

If everyone believed

And I know that it’s easy to say

Oh, but I’m gonna dream it anyway

'Cause a dream becomes a song

And when we sing it we pass it on

If everyone believed

Oh, what a happy place it would be

We’d live in peace on earth as a great big family

If everyone believed, if everyone believed