If Everyone Believed

<p>It was 1983<br/>On a snowy Christmas Eve<br/>With my family<br/>And the Christmas tree and lights<br/><br/>That was when it all went wrong<br/>Someone turned the TV on<br/>And the evening news<br/>Broadcast the blues that night<br/><br/>But my dad saw my despair<br/>He put his arm around me there<br/>He said, &quot;Let me tell you this<br/>It&#x27;s my lifelong Christmas wish&quot;<br/>He said<br/>If everyone believed<br/>Oh, what a happy place it would be<br/>We&#x27;d live in peace on earth as a great big family<br/>If everyone believed<br/><br/>Now the years have come and gone<br/>But that Christmas wish lives on<br/>It&#x27;s the thing I pray<br/>When the holidays draw near<br/><br/>You see the news is still real sad<br/>And people, they&#x27;re both good and bad<br/>But you just might cope<br/>If you spread some hope and cheer<br/><br/>So as we sing &#x27;Joy To The Earth&#x27;<br/>And celebrate the Savior&#x27;s birth<br/>I pull my family close to me<br/>And tell them how the world could be<br/><br/>If everyone believed<br/>Oh, what a happy place it would be<br/>We&#x27;d live in peace on earth as a great big family<br/>If everyone believed<br/><br/>And I know that it&#x27;s easy to say<br/>Oh, but I&#x27;m gonna dream it anyway<br/>&#x27;Cause a dream becomes a song<br/>And when we sing it we pass it on<br/>If everyone believed<br/>Oh, what a happy place it would be<br/>We&#x27;d live in peace on earth as a great big family<br/>If everyone believed, if everyone believed