I f**kin' HATE Christmas Songs!!!!!!!!!!!- Page 3

[Type_A_Tiff]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:07pm

Apparently so. A waste of money if you ask me. If I've got a few hours to live, there's some things I'd rather smoke/eat/do/kill and shoes aren't my top priority.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:08pm

Hear hear, Tiff.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:09pm

It's so sad because the store clerk says that the kid doesn't have enough money. So the singer of the song pays for the shoes. Obviously so Mama can go be with Jesus.

Look for this to be a two hour movie special next year on Lifetime.

[Allie]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:09pm

Here are the lyrics for the song:

Christmas Shoes

It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes

His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say

Chorus:
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

He counted pennies for what seemed like years
Then the cashier said, "Son, there's not enough here"
He searched his pockets frantically
Then he turned and he looked at me
He said Mama made Christmas good at our house
Though most years she just did without
Tell me Sir, what am I going to do,
Somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes

So I laid the money down, I just had to help him out
I'll never forget the look on his face when he said
Mama's gonna look so great

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

Bridge:
I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love
As he thanked me and ran out
I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:11pm

Mama's probably not gonna look so great...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:13pm

Thanks for posting the lyrics Allie.

I understand it now. This is a po white trash family. They buy the new shoes so Mama looks good at the wake. Then they take them back for a refund (they get more because the stranger helped pay for them) and then bury Mama with the money they get back on the return. Perfect Christmas sentiment.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:36pm

I hate the complete and total Christmas bombardment that occurs every autumn (though someday I'm sure it'll start by the Fourth of July) because it's so obviously and crassly meant to get you to buy things. Isn't it sort of a perversion of the idea of gift-giving that everyone feels they have this obligation to buy something for everyone they know come winter?

As for Christmas songs- some of them are genuinely beautiful, but the vast majority are the worst kind of treacly crap, as exemplified by that horrifying shoe song. It's when all these things stop being about the genuine sentiments of the holiday and start being about snatching your piece of the holiday money windfall that I really get pissed. And I'm Jewish. Updated On: 12/6/04 at 05:36 PM

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 5:50pm

Oh God...as much as I love Christmas music (*ducks*), there are two things that I hate about it- when stations and stores play it in freaking OCTOBER and songs like "The Christmas Shoes."

I say this is the real reason why all Christians are going to hell.

But I do love the good Christmas music...

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:14pm

Toby Keith wrote a Christmas song?? What are the lyrics? "Santa's comin' to town/After killin' some towel-heads..."

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:33pm

Interesting how "The Christmas Shoes" and "Santa Can't You Find Me" try to justify the problem of the poor/homeless/sick by using the commercial ideas of the holiday.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:36pm

That. Sounds. Like. A gem.
And oh! These Christmas commercials...the Gap ad with Sarah Jessica Parker romping with the hotties isn't too bad...but do we really need ANOTHER scene with the brat leaving cookies and milk for Santa...OR an onion flower? It was annoying in the seventies with Corey Feldman as the kid, it's annoying now.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 6:49pm

Oh, the one with the hippies swaying in a Christmas tree-shaped love-in? Haven't seen it yet...but I'll wait with anticipation (Oh, wait, that was Heinz Ketchup)

[LilElphaba]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 9:30pm

LOL!!! BAH HUMBUG!!!...dont be such a Scrooge! just kidding, i had to say it

[Plum]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 10:34pm

Quit shoving your cheer down my throat and I'll quit Grinching.

[midnghtdolphin]

Posted: 12/6/04 at 11:18pm

i hate holiday music in general. after about 5 min in a store i'm like, ok, i can't go shopping til after xmas now. ugh! glad i'm not the only one!

[feinstein9]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 5:50am

>>"Christmastime Is.." song from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special rivals Joni Mitchell's "The River" for sheer wrist-slitting glory


DON'T F**KING MESS WITH CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, OKAY?
(breaks into tears)
it's my childhood...
the dancing, the happiness, the angst of charlie and the pathetic tree... oh it's almost too much...

>>"Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime" is seriously going to drive me over the edge one of these years.


insulting paul mccartney will not be getting you points, rathy dear. Updated On: 12/7/04 at 05:50 AM

[FabalaCohen]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 9:33am

You actually enjoy "Simply Having..."?

Blah. HORRID song. Hate.

Give me Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town"

[cabarethed]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 9:40am

But what about Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses? That's the only song that still makes me all happy every time it comes on, and I've heard them all at my job over the past 5 years. My friend, who happened to work with me 2 seasons ago, will randomly call and sing "S-a-n-t-a C-l-a-u-s, hooray for Santa Claus" because he knows it will run through my head all.day. Damn, there it goes again.

It's the crap like remaking Love Shack into Toy Sack and Purple Haze into "Scuse me, I've got gifts to buy" that especially grate my nerves.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/7/04 at 9:44am

I liked Christmas Wrapping the first 50,000 times I heard it. I'm done now.