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It'll All Be Over By Christmas

from The Plum Puddings (Of Desolation) by The Brooms of Destruction

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(I’m just getting into it)

It will all be over by Christmas
It will all be over by Christmas
It will all be over by Christmas

No one can remember the first time it was said
Some still know what it cost but could never count the dead
But when the general trots it out there’s one thing you’ll foresee
Whatever the season’s greetings there’s no peace under that tree

It will all be over by Christmas (They said)
It will all be over by Christmas (Got it in my head)
Yes we’ll all be headed home for Christmas
I can smell that turkey’s long gone cold

Come twenty-fifth December of 1914
Still freezing in the trenches exactly where they’d been
So they disobeyed the orders and for just one day ran free
Oh the Germans’ goal was offside but both sides can agree

Can we all give it a rest for Christmas? (Insubordination in the ranks!)
Can this all be over just for Christmas? (Stop that fraternisation!)
Can the guns play Silent Night for Christmas?
Some respite from their Hark the Herald Hell
Come on and ring that Christmas bell!

That was the war to end all wars
Except the hundreds that have followed
“It’ll all be over” they recite like it’s a law
That with each Christmas gets more meaningless and hollow
Well we believe in something more
We’re done with asking what the fighting’s for
Let’s rise to the newborn Saviour’s call
To smash the machines of war

It will all be over by Christmas (Here we come singing)
It will all be over by Christmas (Our star is rising)
And the angels fill the sky on Christmas
Singing out “the Prince of Peace has come”
So come together everyone
Oooh ooh ooh yeah!

(...I didn’t envisage it as being a…
...un-sensible, not that un-sensible...
...In-fact could that do with being louder?...
...It will add to the excitement...
...OK...
...So I read…
...Its rock and roll…
...Do it again!)

Well they’re still telling us that peace is oh-so-near
If only we buy harder guns and bigger balls of fire
Hey I know that some men have to compensate for something
In their race to make the biggest bang they’ll blow it all for nothing

It will all be over by Christmas (Really?)
It will all be over by Christmas (Woohooo!)
It will all be over by Christmas (My Christmas shopping never is!)
It will all be over by Christmas (Sir! Yes Sir!)
Yeah we might all be dead and gone by Christmas
So don’t jinx me with your lies general
Hooah!

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from The Plum Puddings (Of Desolation), released December 13, 2015

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Passionately silly musicians, writing & playing an eclectic bunch of songs about world issues and cookies. Met while reading at Reading Uni.

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