Tuesday, December 1st, Finneas released his first holiday and Christmas themed song called “Another Year.” The piano ballad is beautifully tender, a bit humorous, and talks about people getting together during the holidays to enjoy each other’s company and comfort.
He opens the song with the words “It never snows in LA/ You’d never know it was a holiday/ I don’t believe that Jesus Christ was born to save me/ That’s an awful lot of pressure for a baby.”
Finneas said he wrote the track last year, before quarantine. In a statement about the song, he said “I wrote this song last Christmas, with a year of uncertainty ahead of us, had I known anything I know now about how 2020 would go, I don’t think I would have changed a word. I hope wherever this song finds you, it brings you some small dose of comfort. The horizon is bright, I think.”
He sings in the Christmas song, “Just want your company/ Beside a Christmas tree, if the dog allows it.” The chorus continues, “Hurry home please, I don’t belong without you/ Your ice-cold feet, write all my songs about you/ I love you more and more each day/ Can’t find poetic ways to say ‘I hope it lasts another year.’”