5. Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf2qhTEghd0 Sample lyric: "The bed that isn't made, the broken window shade. The radiator's on, I loved you all along. But I can see it now. You always tell me how I could do so much better. You said it in your letter." Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens may have floundered on his project to release an album for every 50 state on just two, but he has been much more productive at releasing holiday hits. His Songs For Christmas collection currently runs to ten volumes and a hundred tracks, both standards and originals. Appearing, somewhat inappropriately, on Volume IV: Joy alongside Away in a Manger and Joy to the World, Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day (Well, You Deserved It) stands as a cynical counterpoint to the traditonally joyful Christian carols. A story of cheap wine and squabbles, Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day finds the eclectic singer admitting: "I stay awake at night after we fight. I'm writing poems about you and they aren't very nice". Not the most joyful Christmas sentiments.