Annual Gift Man Lyrics

Take a breath

Take another breath

Deep

It feels cold

It feels good to me

Twenty Twenty Three

Writing this in A & E

Choc with regrets

A tight chest

Might forget the festivities

Reassess passions and capabilities

Repair a cabin in the Pyrenees this December

Though I don't have the budget

Or the timber

Yeah I'm some meek pretender

You don't have to believe in Annual Gift Man

To realise there's something happening

Don't have to have no faith in magic

To find hope and love within this pageant

You don't have to believe in Annual Gift Man

To realise there's something happening

Don't have to have no faith in magic

To find hope and love within this pageant

Doing laps

At the swimming baths

On Christmas Eve

Till they make me leave

The river's high

The bridge is bouncing

Trying to pretend

That I've stopped counting

On a whim

Switch the phone back on

Retrieve what I'd swiped

In moments of doubt

Left unread on my account

Frozen out, but thawing

And fix some plans for the morning

You don't have to believe in Annual Gift Man

To realise there's something happening

Don't have to have no faith in magic

To find hope and love within this pageant

You don't have to believe in Annual Gift Man

To realise there's something happening

Don't have to have no faith in magic

To find hope and love within this pageant

We got aperitifs

We got dips

We got cracker carcases

We got wheels of cheese

A jigsaw and some DVDs

In card sleeves

Freed from the gutter dailies

I got new cable-knit knitwear

That's scratchy and tight the neckline

Fussed your cat in the kitchen

Now I'm diligent in the corner

separating sellotape from wrapping paper - yeah

Cos they don't just recycle any old stuff you chuck in that bin, you got to put some work in too

I'll sleep well

Tonight my pals

Bon Noël

Rêve de tomber

I'll sleep deep

With vivid dreams

Bon Noël

Par de vieux amis

You don't have to believe in Annual Gift Man

You don't have to have no faith in magic