Christmas is many things – merriment, sharing, giving, receiving, a joyful coming together, but it is also full of apprehension and difficulty, and not wanting to do things conventionally on SOTD, here's a double-edged number from the Brooklyn band. Uncharacteristically slow for James Murphy and co's postpunk dance oevure, the lyrics retain that cutting and ironic hallmark, the strength here is gently builds into a swell of feeling, from dismissive loneliness to an apprehensive homecoming. It may not be the usual joyful fayre, but this one-off single of 2015 between albums may certainly hit home for many this Yuletide.
Christmas will break your heart
If your world is feeling small
There's no one on the phone
You feel close enough to call
Christmas will crush your soul
Like that laid back rock 'n' roll
But your body's getting old
It's much too tired to be so bold
Christmas can wreck your head
Like some listless awkward sex
So you refuse to leave your bed
Get depressed when no one checks
Christmas will break your heart
Like the armies of the unrelenting dark
Once the peace talks fall apart
But still I'm coming home to you
Christmas will shove you down
So just lay back in the snow
That quiet wind won't wake
What inside you has grown cold
Christmas will drown your love
Like a storm down from above
On your fading memories of a normal life
Oh, while I thought to make you mine
Believing in the line
That your heart would melt with time
And though you're out with them again
Your thick and fickle friends
They might replace the love that ends
But still I'm coming home to you
To you, To you, To you
Yes you, To you, To you, To you
What if you're done?
What if you don't want it anymore?
So what if they're gone?
So what if they don't love you anymore?
I'm coming home
Can you see me?
Can you still see me?
Hey mama, take my hand!
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