How’s The Year Been?

A Christmas song by

Kylie van Dam

December 2023

How has the year been?

Has it tumbled along?

Has it thrown you to the couch to cry

Or made you stand and sing along?

Has it shown you life’s edges or been

Deliciously dull?

Been too big to handle,

Or maybe too small?

However the year,

I’m glad you’re here.

How has the year been?

Have you loved, have you lost?

Has that loving or that losing

Come at great cost?

Did you wonder or fret,

Ignore or exclaim?

Run head-long into or

Far away from

Happiness or pain?

However the year,

I’m glad you’re here.

‘Cause each year that passes I learn anew

That I’m nothing without you.

You teach me and you hold me and

I do the same for you.

And together we see the year through.

Yes together, we see the year through.

How has the year been?

Did you hold someone’s hand?

Did you let them see your deepest self?

Did you try to understand?

Did you share what you learned

Or did you hide in a book?

Did you face down a fear or

Choose not to look?

However the year,

I’m glad you’re here.

‘Cause each year that passes I learn anew

That I’m nothing without you.

You teach me and you hold me and

I do the same for you.

And together we see the year through.

Yes together, we see the year through.

Yes each year that passes I learn anew

That I’m nothing without you.

You teach me and you hold me and

I do the same for you.

And together we see the year through.

Yes together, we see the year through.