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The 25th Kick Down

by Sebastian Petsu

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Blaise Moritz Absolutely free and wonderful. Red and green may only look good together for 30 days each year but there’s something out beyond the Xmas season going on here. Favorite track: The 25th Kick Down.
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premiered on Jon Solomon's 2022 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show on WPRB Princeton

recorded in the Crooked Room at the Ritz, West Philly. December 2022 using Audacity freeware

Casio PT-82, Roland RA-50, French horn, sleigh bells, and vocals

This song was inspired by DJ Commie Francis playing the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" right after the 2021 WPRB Xmas marathon, as part of a program based around non-Christmas songs that feature bells.

lyrics

Sleigh bells like "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
And not like Santa Claus
This all happened on the 25th
But it was not about Christmas

I wanted to love her
Hold her tight
But she finally found that river to skate away on
I wanted to get those kicks
All day, all night
But I remembered getting kicked by a skate
Lynn D- 91, 92 maybe
And it was all red, with no green in sight

Red and green only look good together
For about 30 days each year
Gliding above,
The weather’s not indicative of any season
And I feel outside myself

The tinsel, balls, greenery, and lights
Just seem like cheap movie props
They’ll all soon get packed away
Like me, everything else
I flash across the screen then I’m gone
There’s always a big sale on the 26th

[chorus]

This song could mean anything
The blank slate of a white-out
Though it very rarely snows here on Christmas
It’s plausible, but unlikely

There were lights hanging in the background
But they WERE in the background
This was a break-up
It all happened on the 25th
But it was NOT about CHRISTMAS

[chorus]

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released December 25, 2022

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