Are You Coming Over This Christmas? - Belle & Sebastian
Where are you going over for your holidays? Are you choosing by obligation (
well, I saw my mum's family last Christmas, so now I have to see my dad) or tradition (
well, we always have lunch together at King's Cafe on boxing day) or scarcity (
well, she's only in town for a few days) or something else? This song is so assuasive in its asking, just suggesting that you could
leave your friends (I don't think they'll miss you much) and that
me and you, singing a carol might be happier with that choice. Belle & Sebastian songs often attract me by seeming to be short vignettes from complexly-imagined lives.