I won't be home for Xmas
By horatiuromantic on November 3, 2024 11:56 pm
A beautiful but sad early Xmas ballad for you all! I wrote it today and performed it for the first time at the open mic at CPH Listening Room, on the amazing grand piano they have there, but the video and recording will be sent to me the next few days (and I might put it on youtube cause it was a good version) so I recorded a version for WB after coming back home.
Here is the live version AND this version with lyrics and visuals!
I have been reading a lot of scifi the past week. I read all 3 Three body problem books, plus another of short stories by the same Liu Cixin, then The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin, and started on some book by Arthur C Clarke. I am sure those are the heaviest influences for this song. Besides that I also played a bit of Rimworld, a scifi-ish survival game set on an ice world where temperatures reach -80C outside, and the only way to survive the cold is to build a house around a geothermal vent which spits out steam every few seconds. Meanwhile I've been sick the past three weeks with some kind of cough bug, and forced to stay inside to prevent it from spreading, so I almost felt like I was on a small world entirely comprised of my apartment, the hallway, the driveway, and Lidl. Ok that's unfair, I also went to the park, and I'm lucky to have such a nice park near my house. Anyway I am back to health today, which is why I went to the open mic, and it was a lovely way to get back on the scene!
I hope you enjoy the song!
Later I made a studio-only video version:
› Lyrics
› Bonus spoiler
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