Christmas in Hell (Darkness Before Dawn) (Demo)
The Infinite Monkey Theorem
Christmas in Hell (Darkness Before Dawn) (Demo)
by
The Infinite Monkey Theorem
is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The lyrics of "Christmas in Hell" have been used to create three individual songs, each with a very different basic mood. They all have a subtitle to distinguish them. "Christmas in Hell (Darkness Before Dawn)" is the poppy dubstep version.
The song describes the disquieting feeling that creeps over many families at Christmas. They come together ‘out of tradition’, but in reality they have grown apart and toxic relationships spoil the celebration. Instead of spending a nice evening with the family, the worst character traits of the people dominate, the so-called “Seven (im)mortal Sins”: pride, sloth, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and greed instead of love, trust, compassion and charity. A hellish Christmas scenario, as the biblical hell could not imagine it to be worse year after year.
The family's gathered, in contempt and despair
Only hatred and envy, there's no love in the air
No tinsel, no songs, no holly or cheer
Is Christmas in Hell worse than Christmas right here
No angels, no stars, no holy night
Only shadows and fears, far from holiday lights
Down, down, down
Into the devil's pit we go
It's Christmas on Earth
And Hell celebrates it too
No stockings are hung, no mistletoe to kiss
Only twisted pleasure in the serpent's hiss
The gifts are the chains, the bows are the flames
We're celebrating sin, we're playing hell's games
No peace on Earth, no goodwill to men
Just the echoes of suff'ring again and again
And again and again
Down, down, down
Into the devil's pit we go
It's Christmas on Earth
And Hell celebrates it too
It's pride and sloth and lust and envy and gluttony and wrath and greed
The seven immortal sins are all we need
No savior born, no bells jingle-ling
Repeating damnation, year after year
No flames to rise 'cause the damned are we
Christmas on Earth or Hell it will be
Down, down, down
Into the devil's pit we go
It's Christmas on Earth
And Hell celebrates it too
Down, down, down
Into the devil's pit we go
It's Christmas on Earth
And Hell celebrates it too
It's pride and sloth and lust and envy and gluttony and wrath and greed
The seven immortal sins are all we need
The seven immortal sins are all we need