Indie,Folk,Rock and Alternative: Frightened Rabbits

Christmas (or the Winter Solstice), is a time marked with a specific "commercial theme", the religious aspects largely get overshadowed and the purpose of the celebrations gets lost therein.

This song by the Frightened Rabbits, "Its Christmas So We'll Stop", captures the true spirit of the festival.

Just stop, forget the whole damned year, spend time with the people you love and hold on to the day as long as you possibly can.

It's Christmas so we'll stop 

It's on with the lights to warm the dark

It can cloak elsewhere

As the rot stops for today

Let the rot stop just for one day

Only good red eyes, red suits, and faces will radiate

And the cold will hide its face

Now the cold is turned away

We can be best friends with the people we hate 

'Cause we've all got blood

And it's warmer than you think

Yeah it is warm and it is thick

We all breathe out clouds

We're built to give at least once each year

Now that's better than never I guess

And life might never get better than this

With the perfect excuse for our natures to change

And wear shiny clothes

Oh it's Christmas so press pause and we'll go

Oh it's Christmas so we'll stop 

'Cause the wine on our breath puts the love in our tongues

So forget the names

(I love these lines)

I called you on Christmas Eve

In fact forget the entire year

Don't reflect just pretend and you won't feel scared

You won't feel a thing

'Cause it's all been tucked away

And once you're tucked in bed

You'll hold on to the day for the last few seconds

Your gray dull face is protected from the wind

And I'll protect you I promise I will

And the rest of our lives will be just like Christmas

With fewer toys

You're a good girl I'm a good boy

So I thought

Oh it's Christmas so we stopped 

Were it not for the tick of the clock

And the spinning of the Earth in space

We could always be this way

And as we sleep at the fall of the day 

In the room next door the tree lights brighten the rodents' eyes

And catches a glimpse of the dust beginning to rise

The next day life went back to its past self

The next day life went back to its past self

The next day life went back to its past self

The next day life went back to its past self