Do you see what I see
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne
What You Think It's About
Most of the audience will recognize this song as one of about 20 or so Christmas standards that dominate department store and elevator airwaves starting immediately after Halloween and continuing until we're all too buried in credit card debt to even think about what song is playing overhead.
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was originally written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, but it's been covered by hundreds of different artists, most famously by Christmas crooner Bing Crosby. The song seems to be a simple ditty about the baby Jesus' birth, because those are the kinds of lyrics we're all into during the holiday season. But a close inspection reveals that there's something else in the sky with Jesus in this famous Christmas anthem.
What It's Really About
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was written in response to the Cuban missile crisis. If you're unfamiliar with that harrowing moment from history, track down the first person who actually remembers when this song was released and ask them to regale you with tales of the time when the U.S. and Russia nearly obliterated each other with nuclear weapons in 1962 before the Beatles even had a chance to swoop in and calm us all down.
The song was written as a plea for peace by people who thought they could be minutes away from complete nuclear annihilation. Lyricist Noel Regney was living in New York City at the time, a place that pretty much always expects to be the target of terror and destruction. He was inspired to write the song after watching babies being pushed in strollers on the sidewalks of New York City, and then most likely imagining them exploding in a fiery inferno (Merry Christmas!).
That probably explains these now-terrifying lines:
Do you see what I see
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite
Both songwriters later admitted to not being able to personally perform the song, as it brought up too many traumatic emotions from the time when it was written. We've heard rumors that Sisqo stopped performing "The Thong Song" for the exact same reason.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20104_6-popular-songs-you-didnt-know-have-dark-hidden-messages_p2.html#ixzz2o5c9BNKi
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne
What You Think It's About
Most of the audience will recognize this song as one of about 20 or so Christmas standards that dominate department store and elevator airwaves starting immediately after Halloween and continuing until we're all too buried in credit card debt to even think about what song is playing overhead.
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was originally written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, but it's been covered by hundreds of different artists, most famously by Christmas crooner Bing Crosby. The song seems to be a simple ditty about the baby Jesus' birth, because those are the kinds of lyrics we're all into during the holiday season. But a close inspection reveals that there's something else in the sky with Jesus in this famous Christmas anthem.
What It's Really About
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was written in response to the Cuban missile crisis. If you're unfamiliar with that harrowing moment from history, track down the first person who actually remembers when this song was released and ask them to regale you with tales of the time when the U.S. and Russia nearly obliterated each other with nuclear weapons in 1962 before the Beatles even had a chance to swoop in and calm us all down.
The song was written as a plea for peace by people who thought they could be minutes away from complete nuclear annihilation. Lyricist Noel Regney was living in New York City at the time, a place that pretty much always expects to be the target of terror and destruction. He was inspired to write the song after watching babies being pushed in strollers on the sidewalks of New York City, and then most likely imagining them exploding in a fiery inferno (Merry Christmas!).
That probably explains these now-terrifying lines:
Do you see what I see
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite
Both songwriters later admitted to not being able to personally perform the song, as it brought up too many traumatic emotions from the time when it was written. We've heard rumors that Sisqo stopped performing "The Thong Song" for the exact same reason.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20104_6-popular-songs-you-didnt-know-have-dark-hidden-messages_p2.html#ixzz2o5c9BNKi
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