My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

This is a tragedy and would be on any day, but its occurrence on Christmas Day only seems to highlight our sense of loss and makes our ability to comprehend that much more difficult.

This was a massive star that lived fast and died young.

This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating.

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.