Name: It's Christmas Time
Duration: P00H03M06S
Description: A Christmas track collaboration between G.T. Thomas and Berend Dubbe.

It's Christmas Time

by G.T. Thomas feat. Berend Dubbe

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A Christmas track collaboration between G.T. Thomas and Berend Dubbe.

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When the nights are long
And everybody writes a song,
You know it's Christmas time.

When the days are cold
And the last year's song is old,
You know it's Christmas time.

Objects are suspended
In windows and from trees.
Hung by string and held in place
By tape that no one sees.

Dangling by metal hooks
Balls made out of glass...
Electricity is wired
So tiny light bulbs flash.

Tiny light bulbs flash.

When the nights are long
And everybody writes a song,
You know it's Christmas time.

When the days are cold
And the last year's song is old,
You know it's Christmas time.

The time has come again
People buying many new things
And temporarily hiding them
Inside a sheet of paper,
Where they're forgotten for a little while.
Bringing a mid-sized tree inside the home.

The room's a little smaller
The ceiling feels no taller
But crampedness is accepted for a while.

When the nights are long
And everybody writes a song,
You know it's Christmas time.

When the days are cold
And the last year's song is old,
You know it's Christmas time.

The time has come again
For "decking" this and "dressing" that
And using other words we never say.
Now for removing paper.
These items aren't for hiding anymore,
Under the mid-sized tree inside our home.

It's Christmas time.

credits

released December 23, 2012
Words by G.T. Thomas
Music by G.T. Thomas and Berend Dubbe

Lead vocal, keys, synths, drums: Berend Dubbe
Background vocals, keys, bass: G.T. Thomas

Produced by Berend Dubbe and G.T. Thomas

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G.T. Thomas Amsterdam, Netherlands

“SUBTLETY AND POWER ... CHECK IT OUT!” - Van Dyke Parks

Having worked with artists like Fleet Foxes, Metropole Orchestra, Benny Sings & many more as a session player or co-writer, Amsterdam-based G.T. Thomas is also no stranger to doing it all herself.

She writes/plays/produces her own Progressive Dream Pop on her NEW ALBUM (Nov '19). LIVE she's a one-woman-band (bass, synth, drum machine, vox). ... more

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