Adam Brown, the creator of the electronic music project Owl City, described this song as being about his “…own participation in snowball fights and sidewalk shoveling. Sleigh rides, present-giving and receiving and of course, the ingestion of marvelous Yuletide nutrition (or lack thereof), namely sugar cookies, hot chocolate and peppermint candy canes…”
Released in 2010 as a stand-alone single, the track has a lilting waltz-like feel, and modulates from C major to D at 2:39.
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