Christmas will crush your soul

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

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!

LCD Soundsystem, Christmas Will Break Your Heart (2015)
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A propos de cette chanson et de son enregistrement, James Murphy écrivait, à sa publication (= le 24 décembre 2015) :

So, there’s been this depressing christmas song I'd been singing to myself for the past 8 years, and every year I wouldn't remember that I wanted to make it until december, which is just too late to actually record and release a christmas song… but this year, Al Doyle had a short break between Hot Chip tours where he could be in NYC, and Pat and Nancy were home, and Tyler agreed to fly out from Berlin for a few days, so we all recorded this together, reserved a pressing plant slot, and our friend Bob Weston was available to master it quickly — so that means, less than 2 weeks after we recorded it, There is actually a christmas 7″, which feels like something that could only have happened a very, very long time ago.

Anyway, for the holidays we give you the previous, very long run-on sentence, and this song: “christmas will break your heart”, which is another one of those songs which had about 75 lines of lyrics, though we’ve knocked down to 8 to keep the suicide rate in check.