This next song is from Jocelyn Eve Stoker a.k.a. Joss Stone. She is, of course, famous for her style of 'blues' music and has made quite a fortune for herself in the U.K. at a very young age. She has sold over 10 million albums worldwide. She has had speaking and acting parts in a few movies and was Anne of Cleves in the Showtime soap opera "The Tudors".
In 2008, for whatever reason, she decided to do this "The anti-Christmas Carol". It is pretty much what we have come to expect in this genre of song with drinking and stress and disfunction throughout.
This is a really good example of a terrible song being beautifully sung. The lyrics are included because the way she sings it, it is difficult to understand in some places. The song ends at dead-end, as if it just stops. "I tell you, Jesus, just this once, as a baby anyway". What in the world could that ever mean?
Anyway, without further ado, for the esteemed patrons of GOPBR, I proudly present on the Universally Hailed and Lauded 'Jukebox from Hell', "The anti-Christmas Carol" by Joss Stone. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bbtdqtRhsHmm, yeah
Ooh, yah
It's that time of year
When I set gettin' sick
Of all the cheer
Every song you hear
Was a hit or a miss
From last century
Is it just me?
'Cos it never much seems like the movie
(Like the movie)
So thank God
(Thank God)
Christmas comes once a year
(Only comes once a year)
Just once a year
(Just once a year)
Only bells I hear
Is last call, one and all
Cryin' in their beer
'Cos it's gon' take all year
For the debts to be met
So raise a glass for Christmas cheer
It never snows, only rain
I don't know why we're still dreamin'
Of a white... Christmas
Thank God it only comes once a year
(Only comes once a year)
(Only comes once a year)
Thank God it only comes once
(Only comes once a year)
Mama's in the kitchen
She's stressin', oh no
The oven didn't work, hey
Nothing's cookin', oh no
Brother, sister are fightin'
She's cryin'
Boxer knocks the tree down
It makes me wanna shout
Hallelujah, thank God
That Christmas only comes once a year
Only comes once a year
Thank You, Jesus, for being born only once
I couldn't deal with it
So Christmas only comes once a year
Thank God, Hallelujah
(Hallelujah)
For Christmas only lastin' 24 hours of my life
(Hallelujah)
I tell you, Jesus, just this once
As a baby anyway