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Here Again
00:54
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Christmastime is here again
But soon it will be gone
Another January then will hit like it's the Fonz
And we're the jukebox that's stopped playing suddenly mid-song
Christmastime is here again
And soon it will be gone
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I know it's only just December but my fires are burning low
I'm gonna need a little kindling to reignite the glow
I need some Christmas cheer, I need that little Yuletide lift
Or else I don't think I will live until the 25th
So let me listen to The Pogues, let me decorate the tree
Light a scented candle and eat gingerbread with me
And we can watch A Christmas Carol, or maybe Home Alone
You've gotta give me something 'cause I'm sinking like a stone
I'm gonna buy a bunch of presents just to feel that festive thrill
I hope this season is forgiving 'cause I'm gonna give my fill
I'll buy a box of chocolates, get you something nice to wear
'Cause that's the only way I've got to show you that I care
So let me listen to Bing Crosby while I am in the queue
Waiting to spend all the money that I have on you
'Cause I could never find the words (and wouldn't say them if I could)
But if I buy you something meaningful, perhaps it's just as good
I know it's only just December but my fires are burning low
I'm gonna need a little kindling to reignite the glow
I hope this Christmas is a good one, for calm as I appear
Christmas is the only thing that gets me through the year
So let me listen to The Pogues and let me deck the dirty halls
Christmas is the only time I feel alive at all
Let the new year never come! Let December never end!
It's my only chance to be a halfway-decent friend
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Both Ends
04:53
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There's lots I want to do
While the advent candle burns
And snowflakes fall in powdered sugar showers
There's friends I wanna see
And songs I wanna hear
There's drinks to drink, and Yule log to devour
And shows to play, like, every day and evening if I get my way
Performing 'mid the tinsel and the lights
I'll serenade the streets with Christmas carols
Then get onstage and sing my songs by night
And when I feel the fever on my forehead
That's when I'll know that I am having fun
I want to spend my Christmas morning coughing up my lungs
'Cause I'm so run down from all the stuff I've done
There's films I wanna watch
And books I wanna read
And Christmas stories that I want to write
And stuff I wanna buy
For all the people that I love
To let them know I'm glad they're in my life
December's here just once a year so fill it up with Christmas cheer
And polystyrene peanuts if needs be
Pretend you're the main character in Yes Man
Take every opportunity you see
Accept all invitations this December
Parties, gigs, whatever comes your way
Pack your schedule tightly, and you'll know you've done it right
When you can't get out of bed on Christmas Day
When I was sixteen years old I made myself so ill
Rehearsals, Christmas concerts both with brass band and in school
I coughed right through White Christmas at the WMC
And necked umpteen paracetamol to get through Christmas Eve
There's lots I want to do
While the advent candle burns
And snowflakes fall in powdered sugar showers
There's friends I wanna see
And songs I wanna hear
And games to play for hours and hours and hours
I'm always looking back, and I don't want to look back on this holiday
And see the things I didn't do
It's not like I live like this all the time, it's only one month out of twelve
I run myself so down and through
And if there's one thing worth making myself sick for
It's time spent with my family and friends
So grab a scented candle, one that smells like Christmastime
And when you light it, light it at both ends
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Christmas is tradition
Christmas means doing the same thing every year
And feeling toasty-cosy-warm and trying to ignore the fear
That something might occur to throw your little routine off the rails
The fear that something might not fit your precious child's Christmas in Wales
And I know it's not healthy, I know change will come eventually
'But not this year!' That's what I pray each year: 'No change this year for me!
Just give me one more loop, just give me one more lap around the track
And next year I'll do something different - wait, no, wait! I take it back!'
'Cause oh, the ghosts of Christmas past are knocking at my door
The ghosts of Christmas past are beating on the walls
The ghosts of Christmas past are whispering in my ear
The ghosts are telling me to fall in line 'cause it's that time of year
Cordon off the tree
Make everybody wait until the afternoon
To open up their presents - it would be a shame to peak too soon!
Besides, that's how we do it every year
That's how it's got to be
I've waited all year 'round for this, so would you please just humour me?
My life is full of unforeseen and unanticipated dreck
So, just for Christmas Day, could everyone just do as I expect?
And I know this all sounds absurd, and I am acting spoiled and strange
And I know nothing lasts forever, I know things have got to change
But oh, the ghosts of Christmas past are giving me no rest
The ghosts of Christmas past are caving in my chest
The ghosts of Christmas past are whispering in my ear
The ghost are telling me to fall in line 'cause it's that time of year
And one day I will move away, or I'll be left here on my own
And either way I'll have to find a Christmas future to call home
And I will get used to the fact that it will never be the same
And who knows? Maybe I will learn to love it all over again
But I am stuck deep in a pattern I can't bring myself to leave
And it'll take something gargantuan to force me to believe
That Christmas can be anything besides what I know it to be
And oh, the ghosts of Christmas past are here inside my head
The ghosts of Christmas past won't stop until I'm dead
The ghosts of Christmas past are whispering in my ear
The ghost are telling me to fall in line 'cause it's that time of year
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December Forever
04:07
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I don't want it to end
Notwithstanding the exhaustion, the stress and the expense
I don't want it to end
And I don't have to let it
Time goes slower when I focus, stops when I hold my breath
So I don't have to let it end
December eternal
December forever
If I close my eyes then I'll stay here indefinitely
Never returning
No new year, no future
No ending, no nothing
December: the end is drawing near
Regardless of how hard I try, I always end up here
And Christmas always disappears
I don't want to buy that ticket
I don't want to board that train and know time's passed me by again
Just like it did last year
December eternal
December forever
If I close my eyes then I'll stay here indefinitely
Never returning
No new year, no future
No ending, no nothing
December forever
December eternal
December forever
If I close my eyes then I'll stay here indefinitely
Never returning
No new year, no future
No ending, no nothing
December: I don't want it to end
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