This is the only Christmas song I’ve written, and it’s about waking up on the first day of Christmas and everything being so completely quiet. In Norway, we have all our celebrations on Christmas Eve, so all the festivities are already done by the time people in some other countries get started.
Although I didn’t record this version until 2016, I wrote it a few years earlier, in 2013, the year after I had been seriously ill with lupus again. I’d celebrated Christmas in Stockholm in a small way and my parents were supposed to come the next day but couldn’t make it in the end, so I had the day on my own. I remember sitting there and watching the snow fall outside, doing a lot of reminiscing and thinking. It was almost like I was coming back to life again
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from Rarities 2,
released September 22, 2023
14. First Day of Christmas
Performed by Ane Brun (2016) Written by Ane Brun Published by Ane Brun Publishing/Sony Music Publishing Scandinavia AB Produced by Ane Brun 2019 P&C Balloon Ranger Recordings AB
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I love to listen to this during work, it fills me with calmness and I can almost smell the scents of the forest.
Beautiful & serene from start to finish. SilverFolfy