in which there will be fireworks has an excellent holiday song to share

so, 'tis the season and all that, and by now, i'm sure you deathly bored by the current batch of christmas songs out there. you know the ones i mean - the ones that you hear on the radio EVERY FRICKING SINGLE HOUR. please, radio-folks. i beg you. enough with the mariah carey and the wretched jessica simpson song that was recently available free on itunes (god, why, itunes, why? do you hate your listeners? and this comes from a girl who will admit, with only about 85% shame that i thought simpson's come on over was fun).



SO! i am here to rescue you and set you on the course to christmas music bliss with a song that is beyond fabulous.

i've posted before about there will be fireworks, which is yet another gem from scotland (land of excellent music, thank you very much. and yes, i am the biggest fangirl of scottish music there is). last year they offered up this song for free to their listeners for the holiday season. and i thank you lads for it, because it's so beautiful that i even break it out to listen to in the summertime.

OMGSQUEE, peeps. this song is amazing! and so heartfelt. doesn't it make you feel all happy squidgy inside? when nicholas mcmanus sings, "i still can't sleep on christmas eve," i simply fall in love with him and his band all over again.


well i can't wait for christmas
been buckle-knee'd and listless.
and you say
that you've been wishing weeks away

we hung the lights out in the street
twisted round the bows of trees
the choir sung it's holiest refrains

like gloria
hosanna in the highest heaven knows
this year's been black and blue
but we're alright
and this christmas could be white for me and you

i still can't sleep on christmas eve

and we'll never miss a beat
scarlet faced from whiskey neat
in the cold
singing, dancing in the dark

oh i hope these words will do
i've had my doubts but not about you.
i'm drunk
and hearing voices in car-parks

and this year
oh, i've got love in me,
i swear
I hope you know

gloria in excelsis deo

if i should fall from grace
if i should leave this dear green place
and if christmas fades without a trace

but still when you're around
there's magic in this old grey town
you know you should chat among the flames

keep singing all the songs
who cares if all the words are wrong
who cares if it barely ever snows

but still the choir smiles
the carol of the bells goes...

(mp3) in excelsis deo by there will be fireworks


THERE WILL BE FIREWORKS In Excelsis Deo by ILL FIT