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A Christmas Song for Tormented Souls

No one writes real Christmas songs anymore — luckily there's “Fairytale of New York.”

(Page 7 of 7)

br> For Christmas Day /em> /blockquote>

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.

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Patrick Hynes is an account executive with the consulting firm Marsh Copsey + Scott and the proprietor of the websites www.passionforfairness.com and www.crushkerry.com.

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