This song was unfortunately out of print for many years, but a new version by Emerson Lake and Palmer surfaced in the mid-1990s. It's production is much more lavish.
The stanza "And I believed in Father Christmas/And I looked at the sky with excited eyes/'Till I woke with a yawn, in the first light of dawn/And I saw him through his disguise." is the most bitter. "And I saw him through his disguise". He begins to see Santa as a lie.
Rikdad sums it up beautifully in his/her take on the last verse. I think it is an ironic mention of hope. And yet, I think Greg Lake is being sincere when he wishes "All anguish, pain, and sadness leave your heart and let your road be clear." He offers hope, yet the road to this hope will not be an easy one.
I must ask, which Christmas song is more depressing, yet brutally honest--this or Gordon Lightfoot's "Circle of Steel"?
This song was unfortunately out of print for many years, but a new version by Emerson Lake and Palmer surfaced in the mid-1990s. It's production is much more lavish.
The stanza "And I believed in Father Christmas/And I looked at the sky with excited eyes/'Till I woke with a yawn, in the first light of dawn/And I saw him through his disguise." is the most bitter. "And I saw him through his disguise". He begins to see Santa as a lie.
Rikdad sums it up beautifully in his/her take on the last verse. I think it is an ironic mention of hope. And yet, I think Greg Lake is being sincere when he wishes "All anguish, pain, and sadness leave your heart and let your road be clear." He offers hope, yet the road to this hope will not be an easy one.
I must ask, which Christmas song is more depressing, yet brutally honest--this or Gordon Lightfoot's "Circle of Steel"?