I read the mail tonight Your letter blew my mind Miracle again Ellen will be home come Christmas Day You thought you'd lost her You thought your little girl would fade away Ellen says an angel told her to stay After all your practice at sayin' goodbye She pulled back from the sky And I got to jump for joy tonight as I run up these stairs I'm gonna wake my baby with this news of Thanksgiving We get down on our knees to honor - a courage so rare Grateful that Ellen is living I feel so foolish That I've been feelin' down Forgetting again Nobody has nothin' but now It's always somethin' It's like I don't know how to get along with blessings Always somethin' pressing down on my mind Now I think about the clear light in Ellen's eyes And the way time moves within us: It flies And brother I got to jump for joy tonight 'cause I been readin' your letter I'm gonna hold the lesson I have learned from your daughter If and when may be good to you but here and now are better She's livin' like the angels have taught her It's been done, the doctors say All that science can do Ellen smiles and lets her mind go in a dream She's a rider on a stream passin' through Yes I got to jump for joy tonight 'cause I remember what is true I'm gonna greet the sun as if each day were Thanksgiving And I get down on my knees believin' I'm finally comin' to Grateful again to be living Ellen I'm grateful again Just to be alive