Every year at Christmas   All I can see   Are pictures of the things I want   Around the tree   But this year's a little different   I'm not thinking of myself   So my prayer for this Christmas    Is for somebody else      (Chorus)   So I pray...   Joy To the World   Peace for every boy and girl   Hope when life is hard   Light when everything seems dark      God I know you're listening   And you can hear   The need of every broken heart   And all their tears   I don't have a lot to offer   Just this one simple prayer   That this Christmas everyone would know    Somebody cares...      (Chorus)   So I pray...   Joy To the World   Peace for every boy and girl   Hope when life is hard   Light when everything seems dark      I pray that every hungry soul    Will be filled and will be warm   That not a single, solitary child    Would suffer harm      And Lord we find their ending   As we take another view   My hope is that this Christmas prayer   Would somehow come true         I pray...   Humanity would rise   And join with me   And together we'll sing      Joy To the World (To all the world)   Peace (Peace) for every boy and girl (for every boy and girl)   (Talking bout hope) Hope when life is hard (when life is hard)   Light when everything seems dark      I pray that (I pray) every hungry soul    Will be filled and will be warm   (Not a single child) That not a single, solitary child    Would suffer harm      And Lord we find their ending   As we take another view   My hope is that this Christmas prayer   Would somehow come true...      Joy To the World   Peace for every boy and girl