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For Christmas Day
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We get an image of a very hung-over MacGowan-like character
being let out of the drunk tank early Christmas morning, not at all
pleased with the noise that greets him. And yet there is promise
and hope in MacGowan’s voice when he sings the lyric, as though the
bells on Christmas Day mark a new beginning for this troubled soul.
The song, like many Pogues songs, can be heard as a desperate cry
for help from MacGowan, who seems utterly incapable of quitting his
self-destructive lifestyle.
Maybe the re-release of “Fairytale of New York” and the new
Pogues tour can provide MacGowan the new beginning he fairly
screams for in this song.