We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

I Never Get What I Want (2020)

from Songs of Christmas Vol. I, 2011​-​2021 by Darryl Gregory

supported by
austrianschatz
austrianschatz thumbnail
/

about

Even during the pandemic I was able to bust out a Christmas song for 2020! I lcan be a bit "Scroogey" about Christmas - maybe I think it makes it fun - but deep down I really like Christmas. I love singing during Christmas at church and even the hokey songs on the radio that I've been sining all my life. So this song is about a curmudgeon who seems to never get what he wants (and I think he likes to complain about it) - probably because he doesn't know what he wants. It's very musical theater-ish and I've enlisted the help of my real-life wife and son!

lyrics

I’m looking underneath my Christmas tree
Can’t believe what I see
It’s the same old same old I get year after year
It’s something they decided I really need
A self-help book they think I ought to read
But I just grin and fake that holiday cheer

Because my kids don’t listen
My wife don’t listen
My mama never listened and
Santa — well he don’t listen to me
Because I never never never never never get what I want
I never never never never never get what I want

I’m dropping hints like a ton of bricks
I leave catalogs open to page 26
But no one seems to notice all the clues I leave
I go shopping with my wife and say hey that looks nice
She says yeah yeah yeah but look at the price
She thinks I’ll shoot my eye out on Christmas Eve

And the dog don’t listen
The neighbors don’t listen
The cops don’t listen and
Santa he never listens to me
Cuz I never never never never never get what I want
I never never never never never get what I want

Wait a sec…
Could it be?
Is that a present from my list?
Did Santa really listen to me?

Oh I never never never never never get what I want
I never never never never never get what I want
No I never
Never ever
Man I never, never, never, never, never get what I want…
No

Well like my Daddy said
Ya ain’t gonna get what ya want
Unless ya know what ya want
So true, so true

credits

from Songs of Christmas Vol. I, 2011​-​2021, track released December 5, 2020
Dialogue voices:
Sophfronia Gregory
Tain Gregory

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Darryl Gregory image

Darryl Gregory Connecticut

Take a little Mellencamp, throw in some Cash, stir with a dash of Hiatt and flavor with Springsteen & Earle. Sounds Like Darryl Gregory. Heat-n-Eat! mmm good.

contact / help

Contact Darryl Gregory

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Darryl Gregory, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now