Flying Home For Christmas - The Ornaments
If you don't want to listen to someone narrate their plane crashing as they fly home on Christmas, skip this. It's a seasonal
At The Bottom of Everything. Maybe a bit less hopeful. I'm always a sucker for incredibly specific lyrics (see: my enduring love of
Jens Lekman) so I adore wry lines like:
Still I bought an hour of Gogo/In-flight wifi, in-flight wifi to text you goodbye
and
The woman left used her vomit bag/Her vomit bag smelled like egg nog
More than that, though, while I personally
get excited about xmas, December is a pretty fraught time for lots of people. The long nights and challenging family dynamics can add up. Someone at my office has been maintaining a scrawled countdown on a whiteboard for the past month:
6 DAYS TIL CHRISTMAS
5452 DAYS TIL 500 PPM CO2
Ouch.
So yeah, this song is a real December Downer. For all you might try to picture
poverty graphs, sometimes all you've got it parts per million, or pyongyang, or paperclips, or planes crashing.