Christmas Imaginings
- Please one year, let it go
More sober reflections on the festive season.
It's Christmas again, with Christmas lights and Christmas bells.
Christmas carols, Christmas cards and Christmas smells.
There are Christmas decorations, there are Christmas celebrations.
Christmas, bloomin' Christmas, with the same old relations.
Just one year please, oh please just let it go.
Let me have my coke, and a pizza to go.
Save me from the bloat, save me from the Bond.
Please oh pretty fairy, wave your wand.
It's Christmas time again, supposedly the season of good will.
But the high street shops just want you money in their till.
There's a Santa in the Deli, there's a Santa on the telly.
And everywhere that Santa goes is a fat enormous belly.
Just one year please, oh please just let it go.
Tell them all that I don't want to go.
Save me from turkey, save me from sherry.
Please oh pretty fairy, I don't want to be merry.
It's Christmas records, Christmas socks always Christmas weather.
It's time for granny to sleep, and Dad to lose his tether.
The Queen's on the box, with a message for the commonwealth.
And then it's old Wogan looking pleased with himself.
Just one year please, oh please just let it go.
Let's have weeks of sun instead of the snow.
Stop having Christmas, let them abolish.
Please oh pretty fairy, grant my wish.
Category: "Life"
Written by Keith Lambell, December 20th 2001
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