Call off the holidays! I’m miserable! We’re apart! No joy! No Jesus! Can’t be!
Big Sister comes back with “Christmas in July” the metaphor of topsy turvitude for the breakup. Get it?
Erasure insists he’ll be your “Loving Man” even though you said goodbye. Easy, man, there’s more lutefisk on the holiday smorgasbord.
Light rock from Jim Croce posits “It Doesn’t Have to be That Way.” You could be here. With me. For Christmas. Tonight. He’s coming over NOW!
The O’Jays shaboop the problem with “Christmas Ain’t Christmas Without the One You Love.” Motown, mo’ mopey.
