Let’s Not Talk of Christmas is a warm, wry response to Christmas arriving earlier every year. While the bees are still moving through the breeze and the fruit is still on the trees, the cash tills are already ringing. Moving from September through to December, the song looks at anticipation, nostalgia, loneliness and the increasingly commercial rush towards the festive season — before the sound of cash tills finally gives way to church bells and something a little more traditional.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Now let's not talk of Christmas
Everybody's in denial
The honey bees
Move in the breeze
We pick the fruit
Straight from the trees
[Refrain 1]
It's still September
I hear the cash tills ring
It's still September
I listen as they ring
It's still September
I listen as they ring
[Verse 2]
The autumn light glows
In distrust
At all the fuss
Delayed gratification
A discipline
We all have lost
[Refrain 2]
It's still October
I hear the cash tills ring
It's still October
I listen as they ring
[Verse 3]
The young ones know no different
The old ones know too much
Of memories
That used to please
Nostalgia's curse
All men will feel
[Refrain 3]
It's still November
I hear the cash tills ring
It's still November
I listen as they ring
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[Bridge]
Listen
Listen
Listen
Listen, how they ring
Listen
Listen
Listen
Listen, how they ring
[Verse 4]
For the ones who live alone now
With the heating turned low
Her family's scattered
Far away
A video call
Brings joy home
[Refrain 4]
It's now December
I hear the church bells ring
It's now December
I listen as they ring
[Outro]
Listen
Listen
Listen
Listen, how they ring