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I'll Always Call You Father Christmas

by Faithful Johannes

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Faithful Johannes's 5th Annual Christmas Single.

Johannes addresses this festive pop song to the big man. He doesn't mind if you say Santa Claus really.

lyrics

I’ll always called you Father Christmas
It’s what you wrote upon my gifts first
The dawning of the twenty-fifth looks grey
Who needs a white Christmas anyway

You took time out of your busy schedule one year
To call me up and I’ve always felt grateful
You sounded just like dad’s friend Steve Coleman
I’d told you I wanted seven kinds of games consoles
I must have been really missing something
My mum was making notes to send like you weren’t listening
It was a very poor and inefficient system
Cos I wound up with a skateboard and a book of unsolved mysteries


I’ll always call you Father Christmas
I’ve seen you in shops, leisure centres and forests
The beard was real despite my suspicions
you asked what I wanted, but I was too embarrassed
I always called you Father Christmas
You ate the carrots and snowflake biscuits
I know you’ll be home late tonight
half smile half grimace and a torn meniscus

Hey, so how come you got my third best friend Nicky
hundreds of mega gifts, when I only got one
and my extended family had to fork out for the rest
Just so that I did not get too glum
And teacher’s fave Lisa got an extravagant playground
Taking up her whole back garden
I’m adamant, I’m pretty much certain
There’s been a mistake, though this technics lego is freakin’ great

I’ll always call you Father Christmas
That Santa Claus is some massive fraud
And I wouldn’t search for what they do in the Netherlands
It’s altogether far better to never know
I’ll always call you Father Christmas
I was told you’ve got a key that’s a skeleton
I wouldn’t believe in you but Pip Evans’ Nan
Saw lights in the sky when she went for a wee at night

Posted
No stamp
‘Father Christmas
North Pole
I hope this gets there’
I want a SNES
I want Mickey Mouse
In Castle of Illusion
I want to be a yogurt
Or I want to be a tank
I want my unrealistic dreams realised
I want bee pyjamas with wings on the sides
That I can wrap round my shoulders at night
I want a TV in my bedroom
A piece of rock from the moon
Or those trainers I designed in my pad
I want a comic book
That smells fresh and inky
I think I want this Elvis Costello CD
That I read about in a grown up magazine
I feel queazy
Should be sleeping
I want stars on my ceiling
That glow in the dark
I want a jet black jet pack
Or a hoverboard
I want to read poetry with sincerity
Over minor chords
I hope you didn’t see
When I kicked Joth in class
Wanted to get my own back
For I no longer know what
Do you never get angry and frustrated
Or crushed by the weight young expectations?

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released December 3, 2021
Everything - Faithful Johannes

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Faithful Johannes Durham, UK

Sincerity Rapper.

Electronic Sound - ‘The Alan Bennett of Hip Hop’.

Tom Robinson (BBC 6MUSIC) - ‘a great artist’, ‘a rivetingly charismatic live performer’ and ‘if you have any chance at all, see him live’.

Deb Grant (BBC 6 Music / Jazz FM) - ‘clever and authentic and really affecting’.
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