Countdown for Christmas Day 4
The most depressing popular Christmas song of all time may belong to Greg Lake, of Emerson Lake and Palmer fame. That band is of course is the answer to the classic joke, how do you spell pretentious? ELP.
His “I believe in Father Christmas” is so bizarrely sad, it is good. It is a downer of a song. The opening lines of “they said there would be snow for Christmas” immediately lets you know a lie is coming. Lake answers immediately yes, all it did was rain on Christmas. The songs then goes onto how he wanted to believe in Christmas and how he bought into it that he actually believed. Those dreams come crashing down when he realizes the season is a farce.
However, Lake said that was not his intention. He was protesting the commercialization of the holiday and how it lost its true meaning. Maybe. The one saving grace is this ditty comes in at just under four minutes. That is short for an ELP track in the 1970s. Thankfully short.
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