Write Away Magazine Dec 2019

Christmas
Is the most significant time
Of the year;
It’s the earth’s celebration
Of the birth of our Savior
Jesus Christ.
It’s the best time to be with
The people so dear to your heart
That is why I always long to
Celebrate Christmas with you.
Chorus:
(And/ I ) greet you,
Merry, merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you;
Merry, merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you;
I am very joyful
We’re together
On this holy day
That is why I
Always (long, love) to
Celebrate Christmas with you.
Christmas
Is the most eventful season
Of the year
It’s the world’s festivity
Of the love of our Father
Almighty God.
It’s a season for giving, for sharing,
For showing love
That is why I
Always love to
Celebrate Christmas with you.
(Repeat Chorus, 2x)
I.... Always love to...
Celebrate Christmas....
With you.
Celebrate C
Even though I don’t have the talent of playing any
musical instrument, I am able to write song lyrics
with melody.
When a song chooses me to be it’s channel, I
usually write it straight away while singing it
with the melody that goes with it to capture the
song within me. There are songs that came to me
smoothly that I finished writing them in just a few
minutes or hours. When a song comes by
installments or with missing lyrics or blank
melodies, I sing them again and again while taking
a bath until the missing lyrics/melody fill in. There
are also songs that took me days, months, and
sometimes years, to complete them.
I composed the CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS song
in December of 2012. My father died in July of the
same year. The loneliness of having thoughts of
celebrating Christmas without him for the very
first time sparked in me the urge to write this song
with sense of encouragement for us to do our best,
as much as we can, to celebrate Christmas with
our loved ones, especially with our family, because
when they are gone, celebrating Christmas would
never be the same again.
It is also a product of a renewed excitement to
celebrate Christmas with hope and love, despite the
hurt and brokenness of losing my father, because
of the woman I met when we coincidentally went
to the Municipal Hall to get the death certificates
of her mother and my father who died just one day
apart. As we conversed, we learned that we were
grade school classmates and we only saw each
other again on that “destined” day, after 19 years
since our graduation. My Christmas wish of
celebrating Christmas with her, that I incorporated
in writing the song, is always granted since 2012,
especially now that we built our own family
together.
To hear Augusto sing his song...
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