All I Want for Christmas is Christmas

by Drunk at the Library

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Ho ho ho!

We wrote this for the Here's to the Future of Dratt holiday mixtape.

Recorded in Will's bedroom, lit by candles.

(We also recorded a Christmas cover, which you can hear on their tape: herestothefutureofdratt.bandcamp.com/album/de-loused-in-the-winter-wonderland )

I hope your emotional stockings are presently being filled with joy wherever you are and whatever you celebrate.

~Will W. & everyone at DATL HQ

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Christmas always makes me angry
Why is grandma's house so tiny?
My uncle grins and my father steams
My mother frets and my brother falls asleep

I step outside as the smoke alarm screams
I like the snow, I like being alone
And I like how these streets glow tonight
Like white sheets striped bright by strands of rainbow lights

There I pause in place and gaze
Through gauzy-veiled picture frames

I really like these other families
I like the way they look all fuzzy
Crowding round their golden turkeys
Bowed before their giant TVs

Give me that Christmas
Give me that family
Give me that ceiling-scraping tree
To trim affectionately

Yeah, I know these rosy visions
They’re yuletide lies, they’re jolly fictions
But I like pretending other families are different
It’s so easy to love them, and forgive them, as befits this season

If I could see my family as strangers through a window
I could love them in perfect Christian fashion
And I could forgive them as befits this season

How come we can’t get along?
I love you all but you piss me off
Just like Jesus loved his cross
I love you all but you piss me off
And that’s why I go for walks
I go to walk this pissed-offness off

As I go back in
Yeah, grant me patience
Yeah, make me gracious
Yeah, give me Christmas

And give me my Christmas
Give me my family
Give me my tree pre-trimmed
Yes, a tree that you don’t need to trim
Cuz the lights are built right in
Give me my Christmas
Give me my Christmas
Give me my family
Give me my tree

Give me my tree
You don’t have to trim it
The lights are built in it

credits

released December 25, 2018
All lyrics by Will Wellington
All music by Drunk at the Library

Drunk at the Library is: Will Wellington, Murphy Digby, Laura Rutty, Sarah Becker, and Trevor Cooke

Trevor sat this particular recording out due to scheduling constraints.

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Murphy Digby

Cover art by Will Wellington

Special thanks to our lovely neighbours: Kieran Kane, Brady Patterson, and Katie McLeod

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Drunk at the Library Guelph, Ontario

Will
Murphy
Laura
Sarah
Trev

2018-2020

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