Candlelight and mistletoe, every year the visit home

Passes by so quickly and too soon it’s time to go

Fold the velvet carefully, take the lights down from the tree

Wrap up every ornament and pack the old nativity

Every year we journey here and see the friends we used to know

Funny how we move away and suddenly believe we’re grown

Candlelight and mistletoe, lights on houses down the road,

Coming down like christmas trees and pretty cards hung in a row

Everytime the family’s more distant than they used to be

In miles, but every heart is warm amongst the snowy scenery

Candlelight and mistletoe, kisses in a warming glow

Spirit makes this great old house a home

With holly boughs, and candy houses, Tinsel flashes, clinking glasses

Laughing, singing songs that we all know

I realize it every time I go... There’s no place else like home