A Christmas Lament (Oh Shit It's Christmastime Again)

by David Schembri

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	1.	A Christmas Lament (Oh Shit It's Christmastime Again) 01:36	lyrics	buy track
	Oh shit, it's Christmastime again! What have I done for the past year? Twelve more months gone by, And I'm still wasting time. So can we put those Christmas lights away? How is it Christmastime again? Lost seconds fly and turn to days. Our lives slip away If we don't do today The things we love, and live our lives with love.

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Once I left education and started my working life, the rhythm of the holidays that punctuated my year made way for a formless mass of days, identical to one other, until all of sudden, the days start getting shorter, the nights longer, and before you knew it, it's Christmastime again. Shit.

And I used to look back, and all I could see was this formless mass, a day lived over and over again for the past 50-something weeks, and nothing to show for it I deemed of any value. The more the days rolled into years and the older I got, this feeling only intensified.</p>

2020, having been spent not only doing the same thing day in day out, but, because I was working from home, in the same place, was an even more poignant example of this.

Luckily, since I had nowhere else to be, I was able to record this song that had haunted me every Advent for the past five years. And in 2020, the Ghost of Christmas Past and Christmas Present are finally free. As for Christmas Future – we'll see to that later.

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released December 18, 2020

Written, performed and produced by David Schembri ©℗ 2020
Mixed and mastered by Jim Hickey

Special thanks to Laura Ratcliffe

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David Schembri Malta

Ever mindful of his mortality, David is buckling down and giving life to the ideas that have been tormenting him for over the past decade in a musical wasteland. His debut indie release, A Christmas Lament, is but the first of an unsolicited barrage of material that the Żurrieq-born singer-songwriter is releasing out into the world in the near future (provided there is one). ... more

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