Song of the Week: Maybe This Christmas

Here's Ron Sexsmith's song "Maybe This Christmas." Leigh Nash did a nice cover of this, too, when Sixpence None the Richer was taking a break. Once again, for those of you accessing this post via Facebook or a reader, you have to go to my website with a Flash-enabled browser to listen to the song:



Maybe this Christmas will mean something more
Maybe this year love will appear
Deeper than ever before
And maybe forgiveness will ask us to call
Someone we love
Someone we’ve lost
For reasons we can’t quite recall
Maybe this Christmas

Maybe there’ll be an open door
Maybe the star that shone before*
Will shine once more.

And maybe this Christmas will find us at last
In heavenly peace*
Prayed for at least
For the love we’ve been shown in the past
Maybe this Christmas
Maybe this Christmas

(The lyrics sites say these lines should be "the star that shined before" and "in heaven at peace," but that rendering doesn't make sense, and I don't hear him singing it that way.)