Top 10 Rock Christmas Songs

Top 10 Rock Christmas Songs

Hey, merry Christmas. Are you done with your Christmas shopping?

Much as I want to give you each a Christmas present, I have no money to do so. Instead, I compiled ten of the best Christmas rock songs which you can play on Christmas day to give your home a different feel. The classic Christmas songs remain the best ones but it’s not a bad idea to have some modern tunes in the air.

10. A Long December



Band: Counting Crows

Lyrics:

A long December and there’s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can’t remember the last thing you said as you were leavin’
Now the days go by so fast

And it’s one more day up in the canyons
And it’s one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven… I wish you would

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it’s one more day up in the canyons
And it’s one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California… I think you should

Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it’s been a long December and there’s no reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better that the last
I can’t remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass



9. Merry Christmas (I Don t Want to Fight Tonight)



Band: The Ramones

Lyrics:

Merry Christmas, I don’t want to fight tonight
Merry Christmas, I don’t want to fight tonight
Merry Christmas, I don’t want to fight tonight with you

Where is Santa? At his sleigh?
Tell me why is it always this way?
Where is Rudolph? Where is Blitzen, baby?
Merry Christmas, merry merry merry Christmas

All the children are tucked in their beds
Sugar-plum fairies dancing in their heads
Snowball fighting, it’s so exciting baby

I love you and you love me
And that’s the way it’s got to be
I loved you from the start
‘Cause Christmas ain’t the time for breaking each other’s hearts



8. Christmastime



Band: Smashing Pumpkins

Lyrics:

We watch the children playing
Beside the christmas tree
The presents are wrapped up
It’s beautiful and secretly the gifts still hide
The fun awaits for you inside

Christmastime has come
There’ll be toys for everyone
Cause christmastime has come for you

I remember dreaming
Wishing hoping praying for this day
Now I sit and watch them
The little ones I love so excited by the wait

Christmastime has come
There’ll be toys for everyone
Cause christmastime has come for you

And now the word is given
It’s time to peek inside
It’s time to let the toys out
So anxious for your look of joy and delight
Waiting for just your surprise



7. A Great Big Sled



Band: The Killers


Lyrics:

This snowman is shaping up to be an 8,
But not out of 10,
The robots awake to find that they’ve been taped down,
Wondering when they’ll break through these chains,
But little boys have action toys for brains,
I’m living proof it can last a long time,
Now the girls off the street are innocent and sweet,
When they’re all in bed,
They got their make-up and dreams of wonderland,
Sprinkled inside their heads,
And soon they will change,
But tonight Hollywood has never seemed so strange,
Now mother’s pray it’ll last a long time.

I want to roll around like a kid in the snow,
I want to re-learn what I already know,
Just let me take flight,
Dressed in red, through the night,
On a great big sled.

I want to wish you merry Christmas,
Ho Ho Ho.

Now they boys are all grown up,
And their working their fingers to the bone,
They go around chasing them girls on the weekend,
You know they still can’t be alone,
I’ve been racking my brain,
With thoughts of peace and love,
How on earth did we get so mixed up?
I pray to god it don’t last a long time.

I want to roll around like a kid in the snow,
I want to re-learn what I already know,
Just let me take flight,
Dressed in red, through the night,
On a great big sled.

I hear the sound of bells,
There’s something on the roof,
I wonder what this night will bring.



7. Let Me Sleep



Band: Pearl Jam

Lyrics:

Cold wind blows on the soles of my feet
Heaven knows nothing of me
I’m lost, nowhere to go
Oh, when I was a kid…oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it’s Christmas time

Flowered winds was where I lived
Thought you burned, not froze for your sins
Oh, I’m so tired, and cold
Oh, when I was a kid…oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it’s Christmas time
Oh…oh, when I was a kid…oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me sleep, it’s Christmas time

Oh…oh, when I, if I was a kid…oh, how magic it seemed
Oh, please let me dream, it’s Christmas time



6. I’m Going to Stop Pretending That I Didn’t Break Your Heart



Band: Eels

Lyrics:

I’m gonna tell you what you need to hear
And i’m a little too late
By three or four years
And it may not make much sense
Now that we are apart
But i’m going to stop pretending
That i didn’t break your heart

You see i never thought enough of myself
To realize that losing me could mean
Something like the tears in your eyes
And i want to tell you i’m sorry
And it’s too late to start
But i’m going to stop pretending
That i didn’t break your heart

And it’s christmas eve
Years down the line
Sitting here wishing i’d treated you better
When you were mine
And i have no way of knowing where you are
But i’m going to stop pretending
That i didn’t break your heart

I didn’t mean to hurt you
I didn’t know what i was doing
But i know what i have done



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