Released: December 11, 2009
Songwriter: Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Marius de Vries Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1: Neil Tennant]
Christmas is not all it's cracked up to be
Families fighting around a plastic tree
Nothing on the TV that you'd want to see
And it's hardly ever snowing the way it's meant to be
[Pre-Choru1: Neil Tennant]
Like in White Christmas year after year
Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby, are you listening to me?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
The Christmas message was long ago lost
Now it's all about shopping and how much things cost
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's meant to be goodwill as well as synthetic fun
What is this year's festive number one?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Spoken Outro: Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe]
Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Christmas is not all it's cracked up to be
Families fighting around a plastic tree
Nothing on the TV that you'd want to see
And it's hardly ever snowing the way it's meant to be
[Pre-Choru1: Neil Tennant]
Like in White Christmas year after year
Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby, are you listening to me?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Verse 2: Neil Tennant]
The Christmas message was long ago lost
Now it's all about shopping and how much things cost
[Pre-Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It's meant to be goodwill as well as synthetic fun
What is this year's festive number one?
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Chorus: Neil Tennant]
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
It doesn't often snow at Christmas
The way it's meant to do
But I'll still have a glow at Christmas
Because I'll be with you
[Spoken Outro: Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe]
Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
more tracks from the album
Yes: Further Listening 2008 – 2010
- I Cried for Us
- This Used to Be the Future
- King of Rome
- It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas (New Version)
- All Over the World (New Version)
- Did You See Me Coming?
- Gin and Jag (Frisky Mix)
- Beautiful People (Demo)
- The Loving Kind (Monitor Mix)
- Love etc. (PSB Mix)
- Did You See Me Coming? (PSB Possibly More Mix)
- The Former Enfant Terrible (PSB Bring It On Mix)
- “Brits” Medley
- Leaving (Demo)
- The Dumpling Song (Demo From My Dad’s A Birdman)
- Wings And Faith (Demo From My Dad’s A Birdman)
- The Way It Used to Be
- Pandemonium
- More Than a Dream
- Legacy
- Vulnerable
- We’re All Criminals Now
- My Girl
- All Over the World
- Beautiful People
- Glad All Over
- My Girl (Our House Mix)
- Viva La Vida / Domino Dancing
- Building a Wall
- Gin and Jag
- Together
- Love etc.
- Up and Down
- Night Song (Fan Club Download 2010)
From the albums
- Christmas - EP (2009)
- Yes: Further Listening 2008 – 2010 (2017)
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- All Over the World (This Is A Dub)
- After All
- Fugitive (Richard X Extended Mix)
- So Hard
- Breathing Space
- Radiophonic
- Memory of the Future