Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas (1986)
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In interviews for the BBC Radio 4 programme Today in 2009, and The Guardian in 2016, Rea said he wrote \"Driving Home for Christmas\" many years before its first recording; this was in 1978 when Rea needed to get home to Middlesbrough from Abbey Road Studios in London. His wife had come down to drive him home in her Austin Mini to save money because it was cheaper to drive than travel by train. Rea was recently out of contract and the record company was unwilling to pay for the rail ticket. The inspiration for the song came as they were getting stuck in heavy traffic, while the snow was falling. He started looking at the other motorists, who \"all looked so miserable. Jokingly, I started singing: \"We're driving home for Christmas...\" Then, whenever the streetlights shone inside the car, I started writing down lyrics\". Rea said Driving Home for Christmas is a \"car version of a carol\",[10][11] and that he wrote it for Van Morrison but did not manage to get it to him.[12]
But scratch the surface of Driving Home For Christmas and it becomes a far more mysterious - desperate, even - song. \"I'm driving home for Christmas / Oh, I can't wait to see those faces,\" it begins, but we never find out who those faces are. Other images in the song are equally powerful and not very Christmassy - we see this man in a car alone, stuck in traffic, singing to someone who can't hear him, and glancing at another driver, also alone. 59ce067264