God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

David Bazan

One last Christmas song for December 26th. I like to play Christmas music on the 26th, because it’s the last day I feel okay about it. Along with our ornaments and decorations, the songs will be packed away now until next year.

Fist, here’s one more from a wonderful artist who got his start as the Christian recording act PEDRO THE LION.

The gall to write a new verse to this carol penned in 1650. ❤️ ☺️

Great art challenges and disrupts. Great art searches for the truth with humility and doubt. This is an artist working at a very high level, creating art from the ashes of his religious past.

Even if a person hasn’t left their faith, being an honest, open-minded adult can be helpful if your goal is to love your neighbor as yourself. That means asking the most difficult questions and seeking truth.

What is true? What do we believe now? What do we still believe?

You feel real anguish and irony in this song as he sings tidings of comfort and joy

This is from a beautiful, haunted Christmas record full of ghosts and demons and an emotional search for peace of mind and truth. I love it and play it every year.

God rest ye merry gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember Christ our Savior
Was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray

Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy

After Thanksgiving our folks
Unpacked the manger scene
With Joseph, Mary, shepherds
And three kings on bended knee
But left the manger empty
Till we slept on Christmas Eve

Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy

And now my wife and children dream
Of gifts beneath the tree
While I place in the manger
Baby Jesus figurine
Sipping Christmas whiskey
Wondering if I still believe

Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy