How about “tore it apart”?
Nice! Fits the rhyme and the meter perfectly.
I sing it as “Later on we’ll perspire as we sit in the fire…”
Cold Outside is rapey. Santa Baby is sexy. There is no question left unanswered It is as blatant as a song about sex as a song can be (any song, not just a Christmas song, even more so than like “I want to f__k you like an animal”)
Well, traveling but why over a fountain? Maybe they should have taken their eyes off the star for a minute and traversed around it.
What are you talking about? It’s right here at the beginning of this documentary.
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There are many celestial objects which never set because they’re close to the celestial pole (specifically, their declination, i.e. their angular distance from the celestial equator, is more than 90° minus the observer’s latitude). Such objects are called circumpolar. Of course they still appear to move around on the sky as the Earth rotates, but if you pick one with a reasonably large declination, the angular range within which they move won’t be that wide, especially if you only consider night hours, since you wouldn’t worry about them during daylight anyway.
Last Christmas, she slept with him, and then the next day, he slept with someone else. I thought that was pretty obvious.
True enough, but the magi supposedly came from the east, and following a circumpolar star would take them primarily northward.
This debate is probably a bit of a hijack for this thread, but I’m still pointing out that the story of the magi is one of those biblical narratives that are radically different from the way everybody remembers them after two thousand years of Christian tradition. The biblical text in Matthew 2 does not say that the magi (the number of which is never mentioned) followed the star all the way from the east. Rather, they saw a star rise, interpreted it as a sign that the king had been born, and took this as motivation to go to Jerusalem to look for the king. Herod’s advisors (Herod the Great, not his son Herod Antipas, who would, according to the Bible, go on to sentence Jesus to death thirty-odd years later) concluded from a passage in Micah that the king must have been born in Bethlehem. So the magi set off to Bethlehem, just a few miles from Jerusalem, and only then did they follow the star as a guide.
No, it is not. We have had this discussion here.
And there is not a consensus on that, much less unanimity. Some people feel it’s cringey and rapey, and some feel it’s just fine. Just because you don’t feel it’s a cringey, rapey song, doesn’t make you right.
If that poster had stated it as an opinion- sure. But as a bare fact, it is incorrect.
This is a silly, lighthearted thread about Christmas songs with weird lyrics. It’s all opinion.
“rape” is neither silly or lighthearted.
No, it’s not, and I should not have phrased it in that way. The point still stands that this thread isn’t really about statements of irrefutable fact.
To add on that, naming the magi Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar also happened long after the gospels had been written, though I don’t exactly know the origin of those names. And though there might be some bones in the three kings shrine in the Cologne Cathedral (that Kaiser Barbarossa stole from Milano in the 13th century), I’m sure they’re not from magi following a star.
I thought maybe it should be “threw it away,” which makes a little more sense than “gave it away”.
Over the river and through the woods…" What river, and what woods?
Well, the house is right on the bank of the Mystic River north of Boston. I live about a quarter-mile away. I heard somewhere that it’s a bit dishonest, since the woman who wrote the poem (before it was set to music) lived on the same side of the river.
It’s claimed that Jingle Bells was inspired by sleigh races held about a half-mile away, but that seems to be somewhat disputed.
So Jane gave John her heart = slept with him. The next day he slept with Mary. What does that have to do with Jane’s heart, which is presumably is the “it” he gave away?
I suspect I’m being too literal here, but I really don’t get it.