This is the first year I have no parents to celebrate with. This hits hard.

@jakejob4902

7 ай бұрын

sorry to hear this , hope everythings okay

@habba929

7 ай бұрын

My condolences to you, a very difficult part of life. Tim lost his mum last month. Supposedly, he still performed this song, but was understandably choked up when he got to that lyric.

@kellykilcoyne732

7 ай бұрын

I am so very sorry. May good memories bring you joy amid the grief.

@roselieber

7 ай бұрын

It's so hard, I'm sorry. Sending you peace. ❤

@gailforce9464

7 ай бұрын

So sorry ❤. It's such a hard part of life. I hope you can find peace.❤❤❤

This is why I love this man! He's a professional, he's performed this song an absolutely ridiculous number of times, and he still gets choked up. A testament to how good the song is and his own emotional investment in it. So good!

@chirilily

Жыл бұрын

He’s also a good actor ;)

@DougPaulley

Жыл бұрын

@@chirilily lol cynic

@TheDSasterX

Жыл бұрын

@@chirilily Sometimes you don't need to act... and sometimes when you're acting, it's not fake.

@bsyt2011

Жыл бұрын

@@chirilily If he is, he is a VERY, VERY good actor. Or, something has happened (or impending) in his life since writing the song. It's masterful! It's Christmas! It's real for many!

@VonBlade

Жыл бұрын

It's difficult to remember back to when your kid was young and not get choked up, let alone the generation above you.

It's really weird when you have a favorite artist like Tim that you've known for so long and you feel like you're a close friend to him, you see him singing an old song about his family, getting emotional about how much his life changed, and you just cry through the whole thing like this thing happened to a friend, but again, he has no idea who you are hahaha damn, music is weird. This song is amazing, Tim is amazing.

@angelaryder7777

9 ай бұрын

I feel like this with Tool’s song Wings for Marie. Just raw feels.

@theholidaylady1

7 ай бұрын

@@angelaryder7777 I'll have to look up Tool's song "Wings for Marie"! I am Marie! Thank you for that tip! Merry Christmas, Angelaryder7777!

@lightyear5562

7 ай бұрын

100% ♥️♥️ it gets me everytime

The best Christmas song ever. Hands down. Thanks, Tim.

@elliotjay2273

Жыл бұрын

agreed and it should be on the radio instead of all that other noise they put on.

@mikicharlie9618

Жыл бұрын

Amen to that

@alextilton2677

Жыл бұрын

@@elliotjay2273 /this. I mostly hate "Christmas music"

@writinginmyhead

Жыл бұрын

I came to the comments to say exactly this. And also to add: 🥺

@michaelmascolo3161

Жыл бұрын

Preach sir Alex

"..and my Mum." is my stumbling block also. She was the one that pulled us all together for Xmas each year and It's just not the same without her.

@-GBD-

Жыл бұрын

Same here… my mum died on Xmas eve 2015… so Xmas is very bittersweet now... But you gotta pass on those traditions that you loved so much and pay it forward to keep those memories alive. Sorry for your loss.

@kcrot2566

Жыл бұрын

Wish I still had my dad and mum but I do have my brother and sisters drinking white wine in the sun 💕💕💕

@houstondragon

10 ай бұрын

Just lost my Mom this year, and hard when the realization hits. Definite respect to him for choking up and the emotions

@empathy212

8 ай бұрын

@houstondragon the first year is the hardest! I'm sorry for your loss! I lost my Mom when I was 20 years old back on Nov 6, 1998 after she battled cancer for 15 years. It does get easier.... and it does get harder....I don't care how old a person is, they're never ready to lose their Mom! I wish you the best for this season and every season after!

Condolences to you and the family Tim on the passing of your beautiful mum a few weeks ago. Thinking of you this Christmas x

My women's chorus sang a choral arrangement of this song in 2017. I chocked up on a particular line every time. "These are the people that make you feel safe in this world." Every time. I love this song so very much. Thank you, Tim.

good to see I'm not the only one who can't get through the complete song without having sudden sight problems and breathing issues :) Thanks for the perfect Christmas song Tim. been enjoying it for years and it "hits" as well (if not better) as the first time ...

@Dan____

Жыл бұрын

Every...damn... time!! ;)

@danielhowell6605

Жыл бұрын

For some reason, someone always starts cutting onions...

@bluetoad2668

Жыл бұрын

@@danielhowell6605 yep.

@Gerardus1970

Жыл бұрын

32 seconds in...

@NM-ii7pb

9 ай бұрын

It's just my allergies. To feelings.

And it's time to open up Christmas 2023 with the weeping through this brilliantly crafted emotion fest of an Xmas song. Thank you as always Tim Minchin.

@janetmiddleton2535

8 ай бұрын

And this Christmas he’ll be missing his mum too 😢 My dad’s been gone for 12 years but I love singing along with Tim and thinking of my dad every year. Thank you Tim ❤❤

@flybymight

8 ай бұрын

@@janetmiddleton2535 Ah yes. I admit- I am à songwriter and when I first found this song I realized it would get harder and harder to sing. But that is its profound beauty and he was strong enough to bring us this emotional masterpiece.

Saw this live just before covid hit and had a 'moment' with the complete stranger next to me when we both recognised the intro. Should have had tissues to hand.

This song used to be beautiful but mourning to me. Now it's powerfully positive. I didn't feel safe when I was growing up. My 3 month old son will. He's surrounded by people who want to make him feel safe in the world and last week I watched him be handed round the room as we introduced him to my partners amazing extended family. This song was in my head as the emotional soundtrack the whole time. In fact I dont think I've stopped singing it since he was born. Thank you Tim x

I am 21 and Autistic. Christmas for me is always about family and being together. I have had a hard time lately with Uni and depression and this song makes me and my mum cry. We also lost my great grandmother(who's favourite drink was white wine) on Dec 23rd 2018(mum's birthday), right before this was released we got the news that a family member had died by suicide after decades of serious illness and agony, Christmas was her thing. Hug your daughter for us all and let her know that it does get easier eventually. It is an uphill battle but the hill can be conquered.

@PubliusNaso

Жыл бұрын

I love that you and your mum both commented on this!

@theholidaylady1

Жыл бұрын

😔

@lisetteem588

Жыл бұрын

hope this Christmas is easier for you :)

@AnnLippert1

Жыл бұрын

Caderyn, A friend of mine told me this was her " new favorite Xmas song and to check out KZread". so here I am. total coincidence, my mother's birthday is also December 23! last night she turned 88! Merry Christmas.

@_Super_Hans_

Жыл бұрын

ok autismo

At 31 I was drinking white wine in the sun, 9000 miles from home. And this song broke my heart time and time again, in the best way.

I keep coming back to this performance vs others that are available because I find it hits differently. It moves me every time how emotional he gets because I can only imagine how different Christmas looks now for his family than when he first wrote the song. It makes me reflect on how my Christmases have changed and how children are growing. His precious infant daughter would no longer be an infant but his message for her still holds true.

I never expected someone to make a secular Christmas song. This is absolutely beautiful. A true work of art.

@shannonjkeever477

8 ай бұрын

There are lots of secular Christmas songs! But this is definitely the best.

@thorium9082

8 ай бұрын

@@shannonjkeever477 You're right on both points. It's been a year, but I think I was referring to the way Tim activity removes christ from Christmas.

@shannonjkeever477

8 ай бұрын

Ah, I see. ☺️

Hands down my favourite Christmas song. Especially hit home when I was living in Norway and came home to NZ for Christmas with our newborn daughter. ❤ Still brings tears to my eyes.

@Daiwie44

Жыл бұрын

God jul!

I've always enjoyed this song, but I just had the chance to see Back, and when I realized he was ending on this, I started bawling and a half hour later I haven't stopped. It's been a decade of loss for my family; starting eight years ago we lost my uncle to cancer, two cousins to suicide, both my maternal grandparents, my aunt in a car crash, and now my remaining Grandpa no longer remembers who most of us are. We normally have Christmas at their place, but with the Alzheimer's and both being in their mid 80s, we decided it was best this year to stay home so they wouldn't risk catching the family cold. Though I believe it was the right decision, knowing that this might be Grandpa's last Christmas (he has cancer now too) left me utterly heartbroken. This song is just as powerful in evoking memories as it is in sowing anticipation. I can look back with gratitude for the holiday seasons spent with those no longer with us, and it redoubles my thankfulness for those we still have. I'm not an atheist like Tim, but his vision of Christmas as being all about family is a beautiful one. Whether you believe or not, the love we share with each other is the most important force in the world. Thanks for reminding us of that with this song, Tim.

My son is 6 and my daughter is 5 months. This song has me at my desk at work bawling my eyes out as i listen to this 6 letter word sing words directly from my heart. Thank you Tim. For being you. Edit: i want to expand. Ive been questioning how do i share the significance of a holiday to my children when i, myself, am jaded by all the information ive obtained directly disputing my childhood. Then you made it clear. Its not about the presents, or the religion, or the food. Its the people who will always be there for you and embracing them with everything you got.

@JB-ru2zb

Жыл бұрын

Ginger?

@entwood

Жыл бұрын

What 6 letter word?

@Hybridhero26

Жыл бұрын

@@JB-ru2zb what else?

@Hybridhero26

Жыл бұрын

@@entwood kzread.info/dash/bejne/fYqCwZKqptjOmNo.html

@JustAnotherBuckyLover

Жыл бұрын

@@JB-ru2zb You better have at least a tinge in your fringe...!

Anybody else watching this over and over? It's breaking my heart and making me smile at the same time❤ Well done Tim Minchin.

I lost my dad this year. This song is just pure emotion through love. If i could play 1 song on piano this would be it. ❤

My son was killed in a car accident when he was 22, and this song turns on the waterworks every time! Maybe that's why I love it - maybe I love it in spite of that. Either way, it's an incredible song with an incredible message at its heart!

@BigCheese77

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory always be a comfort

@jamesexline689

Жыл бұрын

@@BigCheese77 Thank you! They truly are - I cherish them more each year.

@cynthiahogan4598

Жыл бұрын

Please accept my sincere condolences on what must be a devastating loss.

@jamesexline689

Жыл бұрын

@@cynthiahogan4598 Thank you!

I'm 20 and I have autism. Christmas is a pretty rough time for me, and although I don't have children, and I'm not particularly close with my family, but this song was very kind, and I'm so glad people have this feeling of family always there.

This is the one Christmas song I listen to every single year. Mostly because I think it's great but also because I'm from the Southern hemisphere and it's nice to have a song that's not about snow

@WesleyScantlin-d2b

11 ай бұрын

hello, how are you doing it is nice meeting you here.

Imagine having your dad write this song about you. I can’t. What an amazing father/daughter relationship- and I’m sure he’s just as wonderful with his son. Beautiful.

@isaacpianos5208

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather be the one to get "Lullaby" written to Pure gold

@alyssablackartist

Жыл бұрын

@@isaacpianos5208 haha yeah it’s hilarious!

@br3669

Жыл бұрын

Only thing that might come close is imagining your son writing this song about you. How proud I'd be if my son grew up to tell his own daughter this about our family - now there's a life goal :)

@alyssablackartist

Жыл бұрын

@@br3669 well I can’t have kids, but that is a beautiful idea ❤️ I’m sure you have very loving kids x

This song will always make me cry in the sweetest way. I think it is extra powerful this year, thinking about the change in Tim's family Christmas after the death on his mum recently. We love you Tim and your music is timeless

This will be the first Christmas that I don’t see my mum and dad. Rest well both of you.

What a great job he has!! All he has to do is rip his chest open, dig his heart out with his bare hands, shred it and pour it out into a song. And if that wasn't easy enough...all he has left to do is perform that song flawlessly, with feeling and as personally as possible...oh and try like hell not get choked up!!! E Z P Z Wine and Cheesey!!

Gutwrenching, somber and sublime. Didnt know this song of Tim. Now looking forward to the next Christmas time.

Right because holding back tears wasn't hard enough with this damn song without you breaking down, thanks a lot Tim 😭😂

@PoisonedMonkey

Жыл бұрын

That exhale around 4:19 is such a sign he was just about hanging on. Must be so, so hard to spend so much time away from his family.

@spaghetti1641

Жыл бұрын

I was reading all of these tears comments and got it, but wasn't there until the 9000 miles away part. And now I can't stop sobbing now.

I love this song so much. Tim Minchin is a musical genius.

This song will get me through a really hard Christmas season. Even though I won't be "seeing my Dad" (he passed away 15 years ago. I won't be seeing my nephew (he passed away 7 years ago), and I won't be seeing my sister (she just died this summer) .... but this song will still be my friend... ( Also the mention that Jesus died 2000 years ago and I just figured that out last year, so I had his funeral on Good Friday)... I hope "i'll be seeing my Mom"... but she still really likes Jesus. So it is rough. Christmas is still about Jesus for her. She's had a lot of Christmases without me... Daughter number 2... but It will be her first Christmas without Daughter #1. 57 Christmases with her... and now no more... So I don't know what to do. I just want to play this song over and over again as a reminder that there is still something redeemable in the holiday and season we call Christmas, even for an agnostic atheist like me... So thank you Tim for this song.

This song is not just for Christmas, it's an all year round absolute masterpiece. My favourite song ever.

@birgitzimmermann-nowak9364

Жыл бұрын

🥰🥲🫥

@LudicrousRat

Жыл бұрын

Spot on! Personally this song makes me all teary eyed thinking about the barbeques my parents will hold with my siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins each summer. With me and my mum sitting by the lawn drinking white wine and eating strawberries as my dad grills. My absolute favourite time of year that.

Seeing Tim choke up on his own damn song, when I've never made it through past "And you my baby girl" at the latest... priceless. Thank you, Tim.

Halfway through this, I messaged my dad, if he wanted me over around Christmas. I won't have many years left with him, you know.

ive had a reasonably rough go at it as far as a western man goes. i dont cry much.but as soon as i hear drinking white wine with my mum in the sun it just breaks me every time. rip mum., almost 30 years. see u one day

From sweet memories of first hearing it as I sat up all night making presents for my kids when they were wee and we were broke, to being unexpectedly blindsided by it the first Christmas without my own Dad, it's fully part of the emotional makeup of my life now, and it never fails to move me.

Listening to this compared to the live version from 14 years ago... This version has so much more sadness behind it. Not in a bad way, but the nostalgia is palpable. It reminds me of how my Christmases have changed and how I miss my family. Good on ya', Minchin.

Quite literally, the finest Christmas song, ever ever written, perhaps one of the bests songs of any genre ever written. This song gets me every single time.

i'm glad it's not just me who cries at this song

It never stops being a beautiful song. I think it's becoming heavier for all of us as time goes on

I love this more than carols. It’s honest and celebrating something at the same time but never forgives the unforgivable. Too my dad, I won’t get to see you ever again, but we’ll always have white wine in the sun in my heart.

It's not Christmastime until I hear this song. Thank you, Tim.

Man, this song chokes me up every time, simply beautiful. This song should be a national standard for Christmas songs in the southern hemisphere.

I sing this to my brown-eyed girls every Christmas, and I always choke up. This song precisely captures how I feel about Christmas, and about family : "These are the people who make you feel safe in this world." Thank you, Mr Minchin.

Greatest Christmas song from an atheist ever, prove me wrong.

Oh this is my husband's favorite. He lost his little brother a few years back and we love to think of him sitting, waiting for us with some white wine in the sun

I can't not cry to this song. Moving back home in a couple of weeks to be with my family. Life is too short. Tim, you're an amazing human being.

First time I ever heard this was live, end of 2010 just before Christmas during the orchestra tour. (Opening night at Birmingham NIA). It had been my dads funeral the day before. Needless to say I sat and wept…. That night was perfect for me. A fantastic and funny distraction from the events of the previous weeks plus it helped me properly start the grieving process. I’ll always be grateful for hearing this song that night…. Cheers Tim :).

I went to see Tim Minchin live in Birmingham in December 2010, a week before I moved out of my childhood home to try and make my own way in London. He played this song as the second encore and it just ruined me. Brought out all of my feelings about moving away from the home I've always known but in such a healthy way, helping me decontextualize it as being happy that I'll always have somewhere where I'm loved no matter where I go or what I do. I still listen to this song every Christmas and choke up. My first niece or nephew is due in the New Year and I'll make sure to introduce it to them too :)

That guy shouting "Love you Tim" at 1:37, Cool dude.

I have watched this countless times and cry every time. Love you Tim Minchin! ❤

Best thing for me: I listen to this song because I dont relate to it. I dont have Christmasses like these. Quite sure I never will. But the longing and love on Tim's face makes me feel like I cant wait to go home and see the twinkling lights and shake the snow off my hair before I go in. To know something will never happen puts it in a special kind of reality-snow-globe. I dont even buy presents at Christmas. But I quite like the lights. And I quite like the songs. None of them more than this one.

My daughter lives thousands of miles away in South Africa, and this always feels so bittersweet. Wish I could have a glass of white wine with her in the sunny Jo’berg Christmas.

A close family member of mine died on Thanksgiving this year. Thank you for helping me to remember them as they were. They will continue to live on in my head. Christmas won't be the same.

Imagine this is the first time you heard White Wine In The Sun. You lucky people.

I had my family secret Santa today, and all through out it I was just struck by the facts that I love my family, and that it was nice just to be around them. To be there with them. When I was younger... I just thought we'd drift apart, thought I wouldn't want to know them once I could be on my own. But I love my family. I love them so much. They're beautiful people and I know they're not perfect, not by any means, but like Tim said here, they make me feel safe. One of my cousins and his wife brought their baby to the party. The little baby was the first child of someone of "my generation" of the family and it just... the little tyke was so sweet, barely four months old and I love him. Barely even met him and I love him. When he's older, I hope I make him feel safe in this world. I hope I can help him when he needs a hand, or even just chat and catch up. Learn and grow little man, and I look forward to getting to talk to you when you can understand me. Thank you Tim.

@aLukepop

Жыл бұрын

I don't plan to have kids myself. Even if I get into a long-term relationship like that I just couldn't stomach bringing someone into this world. But now that that little one is around I just... I don't know. Every fear I have about the future the world is headed towards... they seem to weigh that much more heavily. I know his life will have pain in it, that's just part of life, but I don't want him to deal with anything more than he has to. I don't want him to have to deal with a world that is falling down around him. I love him, love my family, and I just... I can't stomach it. It's... it's hard to not just want to give up but I don't want to just lay down and let those I love suffer more than is part of life. I know that human evolution and cultural norms and all these other things are probably influencing me. But that does not make my love for my family mean less. They only helped it come to life. There is a beauty and a value in love, that I think can transcend all else that I can feel: Transcend despair, cynicism, and apathy. Transcend my mistakes and my missteps. Transcend my very life itself. My life can have value to me, I think, regardless of all else, if I live it with love and for love. We each contain multitudes. An entire internal world to know and by knowing, love. To live in a world where we may know each other and the world itself more deeply, where we can love and live without malice or unnatural catastrophe... that goal is so beautiful and powerful that it might just be able to pull me above all else. At least when i get so emotional. It is cliche, but that does not make it untrue: Peace and love mates, peace and love.

My grandma died in the beginning of April at the age of 91. She was in a bad shape for a while and in the end, her passing was sort of relief for everyone. She was a difficult person at a times for various reasons, but was always warm-hearted towards us grandkids. When I read the message about her passing, I didn't cry or mourn. I was intending to visit her that week before she passes away, but couldn't make it in time. It just felt like her passing was just an necessary thing I had to come to terms with. And I thought I was. For a while I thought is there something wrong with me, because I felt relatively nothing about the matter. I don't know had I become too distanced in last years or something, but I didn't mourn her passing whatsoever. I felt worried about myself, because all I felt was just a slightly depressed. However, this song hit me with a memory, where as a kid we visited grandma during Christmas and those innocent times, when I was just a kid, spending time with family at my grandma's homestead and my grandma always baked mudcake and chatted with us kids. This memory and realization that she is no more, opened me up to a cleansing sorrow flooding from within. During this song, I first time mourned my grandma I have fond memories of especially from Christmas times. Now, after hearing this song, my heart has eased a bit from its burden. Her funeral will be this Saturday and I promised to be one of the pallbearers. Thanks, Tim, for exceptional performance.

Drinking white wine in the sun. Here in Australia, originally from UK this line hits me every single time. I am,in fact, sitting here right now in the sun with a glass of wine in my garden with family just arrived from the chilly country sleeping off jet lag. Tears in my eyes because my son left to live in the UK a few months ago and can't afford to come home yet. 😢

My God dude that was intense.

This song has made me emotional for the last 10+ years, but this version... damn. It hits hard, but that's why I love it.

This is always going to be my favorite Christmas song, and what a lovely version ❤️

Even here in the Netherlands this song touched me deeply and choked me up. It exactly conveys the message and feelings I'm struggling to pass on to my four children, even though my own family has barely ever had these moments. But I am building it myself with my wife as this is so, so precious. Thanks, Tim, for touching our minds and souls and showing us the way things ought to be.

Am I the only one who imagines the chorus as what I would imagine an afterlife to look like? I die and all my loved ones are waiting there for me in the sun by a beach, drinking white wine...

@MikeKobb

Жыл бұрын

Not the only one!

@TikiStanford

Жыл бұрын

That’s a beautiful thought ❤

@ariadnepyanfar1048

Жыл бұрын

I don't believe in Heaven, but the chorus does sound like a vision of heaven to me.

@thezpn

Жыл бұрын

That's the thing that hits me the most. This song will outlive Tim, his dad, his brother, sisters, gran, and his mum. The sentiment is eternal despite the limited time we have on earth. Thats why the celebration of a birth of someone 2000 years ago is absurd and still meaningful. Everyone brought into the world, no matter how austere their nativity, deserves to have a cadre of family to support them.

@camebackcat1487

Жыл бұрын

You may have missed the point, but whatever feels dreamy I suppose.

I know this is a song about being really far away from your loved ones at a time when your supposed to be together, but I cant help thinking of white wine in the sun as a metaphor for all those loved ones who we can't be close to anymore. I'm hardly religious, but if theres another plane of existence, I hope they are waiting for me in the sun.

Babe wake up, new White Wine in the Sun dropped

Didn't quite catch the last 30 seconds or so through the tears in my eyes... This song always gets me choked up, but seeing Tim also so emotional while singing it really got me.

Fairytale in NY and White Wine in the Sun is always Christmas. Just got home from Sat afternoon gelato down at Cott after an early Christmas lunch with the family heading back to UK for Christmas this year. White wine was had in the sun while the kids were in the pool.

One of my all-time favorite songs. Such a lovely hymn of familial love and the importance of family. As we get older and love ones pass on, this song becomes even more meaningful because it really opens our eyes to how finite life is and how quickly time passes us by. Before we know it... it will all be over. So... cherish the time you get together. Drink that white wine. Enjoy the sunshine together. One day we will drink our last wine and enjoy our last ray of sunshine and Christmases with our ‘mums and dads’ will become just a memory.

I'm not going to be able to see my family for Christmas this year, seeing you cry at then end brought me back to tears I'd been putting off since I found out I'm going to miss what might be one of my family members last christmas. Fucking beautiful song.

@melaniehawkes696

Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that.

@ZuriElysium27

Жыл бұрын

@@melaniehawkes696 thank you.

@JustAnotherBuckyLover

Жыл бұрын

Hang in there. I haven't been able to visit my family since 2016 and it sucks as every year it's a gamble if all of them will still be around by the time I am well enough to go again.

Thank you Tim for sharing this song of love, it has helped me on my grief journey as my husband passed away 12/21/98.

Tears Tim. Beautiful song for your new baby from a loving Dad.

You can see how he just pulls strength from his daughter when he gets to her part in order for him to get through this song! My absolute favorite Christmas song!!! And every year it hits me differently! I've lost both of my parents when I was in my 20's, then my 3yr old nephew, and more family in my 30's and even more in my 40's...I went to 2 funerals in Jan, only 2 weeks apart. My last Uncle and then my FIL and my daughters PaPa. I have 2 amazing teenagers and this has been our favorite Christmas song ever since they were little! Tim Minchin is so real and raw and clearly he resonates with all of us listening! This is life!!!! Thank You for helping us through this season!

Don't worry. I bawl every time I listen to this, and it's been almost daily since I first heard it. That was my family. Sadly, that ended when my parents died. But you bring back those days of sitting on the porch, basking in the sun, snow on the ground, wine in hand, with bellies full and hearts overflowing with liquor and love.

Gets me chocked up every time and I'm Jewish

Being a human really hurts, but at least we can all do it together.

(Thinking of my daughter) "These are the people who make you safe in this world . . ." gets me EVERY time. Keep creating Mr. Minchin, you are doing great things.

Man, I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian living in Georgia and this song made me tear up like hell.

I've never heard this song before. I kept waiting for the joke to come but instead I'm balling like a baby.

Anyone else love this. Thank you tim for being vulnerable and upset.

I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious it means that they're worthy". So brilliant it brought tears to my eyes.

It’s good to know this song makes Tim cry just like it does so many of us. Merry Christmas.

Named my new Burmese kitten “Tutu” because have not in 15 years been able to get this one ☝️ alliteration out of my head. 😮

Tim is just amazing I’ve never been moved, intellectually stimulated and entertained as much by any other performer From running around stage barefoot, crude but funny poignant “Pope Song”, the powerfully apropos “Thank You God”, the edgy “prejudice” to this obviously meaningful ballad, Tim is a musical, comical and philosophical treasure. Thank you for sharing your vision with the world!

I lost my dad in October. This song touches my heart so much, thank you...

@luurchify

10 ай бұрын

My condolences for your loss ❤

Oh boy... this song. So very good. Christmas was always a special time for us. We lived as a single parent family and Mum was always busy working one of her many jobs to bring in the money. But Christmas was a time for the family, a time for us to be together with one another. Thanks to cancer, this will be my second Christmas without her and it hurts. What I wouldn't give for one more Christmas with her. Great song. Can't make it through without crying though.

@cynthiahogan4598

Жыл бұрын

It's been 4 years since my mom's passing, she loved this holiday so much! I know how hard the holidays can be when we're missing loved ones. Let's cherish their memories, and cheers! To our mothers🥂

This song... my god, it's honestly beautiful in so many profound ways. I don't believe in the afterlife but this song draws a picture of the possible heartwarming picture of everyone you loved in life waiting for you to return for eternal happiness... This song is the only time I think of everyone I've lost, if I was to think about it all the time then I would never have the strength to continue, this song is truly a masterpiece. - Thank you Tim for the emotions you let us feel on a personal level

Played this for my wife. Had a nice cry together. I love this song. And now she does, too. Thanks, Tim - you amazing human.

Mr Minchin, we need to talk. That's two days in a row now you've had me in beautiful tears tissues are far too expensive for this to be happening on the daily. 🥺🤧

This song is increadible. My family is not really religious, so our Christmas is always just a chance to be together and have wine and great food. All the times I was far from them this sing would make me cry. I've been following Tim's career for a long time now and love how much he has accomplished.

This particular arrangement is so self-realized, grounded and heartfelt it breathes a completely different life into the song itself. Thank you so much for being vulnerable with us and bringing it back 💕

@VioletEmerald

Жыл бұрын

You phrased that SO well. I feel the same way.

This song tears me apart. I lost my mom 5 years ago just after Christmas, which she always made so special. Even in my late 30s she was the person who made me feel safe. It’s still impossible to fully grasp that that feeling is gone forever. Hold your loved ones tight whenever you can. It’s over so fast 💙

"My blue eyed baby girl"

This is my favorite Christmas song. Brings me to tears every year.

This was the first Tim Minchin song I heard many years ago. It made me smile then but seems to hit a little harder every year! Hope you’re enjoying the sun Tim.

All of my older generation are gone. Parents, aunt's, uncle's, all gone. My wife's in the same boat. We are the older generation now. My brother lives 600 miles away. We've not had a Christmas together since I don't know when. This song is beautiful, but damn, the nostalgia hurts so much..

I play your songs for my family all of the time, and for the last four years we have played versions of this on Christmas. We are a whole large family of non believers here in the Bible Belt of America and we love you! You inspire and delight, thank you from BFE

That perfect moment in time when everone was there and time had not taken some away ... may we be drinking white wine in the sun together again some time. Let me have that fantasy. Thanks for an amazing song.

This is the kind of song you can write when you're young, your parents are alive, and your babies are babies ... and then fast forward 12 years and it completely WRECKS YOU because now you know. This is how it felt for me the first time, Tim. Great job of holding it together, and thank you for this song. It won't be long before drinking white wine in the sun won't mean Australia ,,, it will mean even more.

I've heard this song so many times over many years but I still end up blubbing every single time.

I was lucky to be at this gig in Shepherds Bush - I believe one of the band were in the wings holding up a phone while Tim’s daughter was listening on FaceTime. So emotional