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This Christmas

by Ben Grace

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First released on Lindsey Luff's "Blue Christmas" EP in 2012 & I always wanted to create a more full arrangement of the song. Recorded this at a retreat to Joshua Tree on November 2019.

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This Christmas I've run out of things to give
I've packaged up all of my pretty things
I've crossed off lists & tied them up with string
This year I won't give anything

December 23 it comes & goes
I've popped out all the chocolates from their rows
No firelight to keep me from the cold
The Christmas scene is getting old

With worn out pews & folks dressed up for show
Sing ancient hymns we all pretend to know
No candle lit can warm these hollow bones
The vacant manger feels like home

Clenched in his fist the message we all need
The pastor, like a burdened prophet, speaks
Of found from lost & strength to serve the weak
And something brings me to my knees

This Christmas I've run out of things to give
My life no longer mine alone to live
Nothing left to package up with string
This Christmas I'll give everything

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released November 27, 2020
Written by Ben Grace, Lindsey Luff, & Jeremiah Creiglow

Produced, performed, recorded & mixed by Ben Grace

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Ben Grace New York

Australian singer-songwriter Ben Grace’s impeccably crafted songs hover in the space between lightness and the depths, wrestling their way through humor and melody to peel back the layers and reveal the naked truth of us. Through the specificity of his own deconstruction, Ben writes into our universal search for belonging, spiritual homecoming, and desire to live seen and unashamed. ... more

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