The whole Christmas album is absolutely glorious. I've been listening to it these past few days.
This song (the last on the album) to me sounds more New Year than Christmas, more like "get ready, the past is gone, and here's the present/future, all coming to you in Technicolor now, the bad and the good and all of it, and it ain't for the faint of heart".
The fox as the hunted (dogs baying at his heels) and yet running TO (chasing) the future, as much as running AWAY from (fleeing) the past - even understanding the bad to inevitably be found there as well. It's a really weird "hopeful" song.
The whole Christmas album is absolutely glorious. I've been listening to it these past few days.
This song (the last on the album) to me sounds more New Year than Christmas, more like "get ready, the past is gone, and here's the present/future, all coming to you in Technicolor now, the bad and the good and all of it, and it ain't for the faint of heart".
The fox as the hunted (dogs baying at his heels) and yet running TO (chasing) the future, as much as running AWAY from (fleeing) the past - even understanding the bad to inevitably be found there as well. It's a really weird "hopeful" song.
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