![]() It makes every Christmas season a musical family gathering where everyone shows up and co-exists peacefully - something precious few of us are lucky enough to be able to say about our actual families’ real-life holiday celebrations. Perennials that date back the better part of a century at this point are still ubiquitous every holiday season, while new seasonal releases often take whole decades to prove their worthiness. Unlike the oldies and classic rock canons, which are forced to update their timeline parameters every so often (or at least shed some old songs to make room for the new), being a Christmas standard is a lifetime appointment. Well, maybe for ten months of the year, it goes into hibernation - but you know it’ll be back next November at the latest, and it’ll include the same songs it has for your entire life. It’s music for the most wonderful time of the year, even if it always makes you cry.Īnd it never goes away. It evokes a visceral, nearly oppressive sentimentality, one fortified and strengthened by a lifetime’s worth of associated holiday memories - personal, familial, romantic, nostalgic. But when they do connect, it’s magic – not to mention a holly jolly payday.Ĭhristmas music has a wavelength entirely its own, shared by an overwhelming majority of its most recognizable classics: a sublime yearning that’s at once profoundly saddening and deeply comforting. ![]() Some succeed, as with these modern Christmas classics others, which just dropped this year, have yet to prove their mistletoe mettle. And with each passing year, more than a few contemporary artists try their hand at crafting a new seasonal standard, something sweet and melancholy that lingers in the pine-scented air for as long as it takes you to finish a candy cane (without chewing, that is). People have been singing about Christmas almost as long as it’s been celebrated. The things that make Christmas songs great - whether carols, old pop standards or newer enduring hits - are most of the same things that make pop great in general: emotional connection, universal relatability, unshakeable catchiness. Gb Db Ebm And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more impatient every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. B And the sign said, the words of the prophets Gb are written on the subway walls Gb Ebm And tenement halls. B Gb and the sign flashed out its warning, B Gb In the words that it was forming. B Gb Ebm But my words like silent raindrops fell, Gb And echoed Db Ebm In the wells of silence Db And the people bowed and prayed Ebm To the neon God they made. B Gb Hear my words that I might teach you, B Gb Take my arms that I might reach you. Db Fools said I, you do not know Ebm Silence like a cancer grows. B Gb People talking without speaking, B Gb People hearing without listening, B Gb People writing songs that voices never share Gb Ebm and no one dare Gb Db Ebm Disturb the sound of silence. Db And in the naked light I saw Ebm Ten thousand people, maybe more. Db In restless dreams I walked alone Ebm Narrow streets of cobblestone, B Gb 'neath the halo of a street lamp, B Gb I turned my collar to the cold and damp B When my eyes were stabbed by the Gb flash of a neon light Gb Ebm That split the night Gb Db Ebm And touched the sound of silence. DO NOT SHOW ADS Ebm Db Hello darkness, my old friend, Ebm I've come to talk with you again, B Gb Because a vision softly creeping, B Gb Left its seeds while I was sleeping, B Gb Fnd the vision that was planted in my brain Gb Ebm Still remains Gb Db Ebm Within the sound of silence.
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