While I would love to have found a way to work this one into my church carols night, I don't think everyone would go for it!
Yet, there's something so wonderful and gritty and essentially Irish about it. It's bold, it's crass, but above all it's heartfelt. And honestly, I find it very hard to go past heartfelt. Hope tinged with regret, honesty tinged with whimsy, a jaunty Irish jig tinged with a dirge. It speaks of hard-living, soft hearts and name-calling that could only come with knowing exactly the right buttons to push.
There's a deep sadness to this song but somehow there's still something very sweet about it; the sense that these two people are broken, that the world is broken, but there's something that somehow just works between them. It may start as a fairytale, but it ends as, well,...life.
Watch the clip here.
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