I Believe in Father Christmas
My favourite Christmas song is I believe in Father Christmas by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Honestly, I’m not normally the worlds biggest fan of prog rock, but I love the wistful quality of this song.
It has some particularly English lyrics
They said there’d be snow at Christmas,
They said there’d be peace on Earth,
But instead it just kept on raining,
A veil of tears for the Virgin Birth
The song, seems quite grown up to me, especially for a Christmas song - it’s speaks about the loss of childhood beliefs inherent to Christmas. The belief in Father Christmas, belief that it will snow, belief in the Israelite, belief that there will be peace on Earth, they are all gone, and yet it is uplifting, for it contains a Christmas wish of plain ordinariness - something that might actually happen. Nothing miraculous or amazing, just the simple things of everyday:
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain, and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
Merry Christmas everyone.
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I, too, enjoy ELP’s Xmas song (I’ve been a fan of them since the 70s), but you left out the final, and most poignant, lyric; “The Christmas we get we deserve”.
Hope your’s was good all the same.