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Barry Komitor - My Christmas Bonus

from A Blue State of Christmas by Various Artists

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“My Christmas Bonus was written by my very good friend Simon Scott, one of my favorite people I’ve ever known. Unfortunately, Scotty, as he was known to many of his friends, lost a battle with cancer a couple of years ago. He was a year older than me, and I always thought of him as my English twin. As he lay dying in Bellevue, I got up the nerve to learn this song. I had recorded a solo version of him singing it, and remembered all of the lyrics from the first time I heard them. I showed up at the hospital and sheepishly pulled out my guitar and began to play it, and he lit up. He had lost the physical ability to play, and I got the sense it meant a lot to him to hear his music. As his health deteriorated, I returned to play it for him a few more times before he passed, and those were the only times during the end of his life that I saw him happy. I now carry the song as an homage to him and to the power of music and friendship. That power extended itself further when this song helped establish and deepen the bond between myself and Theo Boguszewski, who lost her younger brother Dante to the same disease. I am so honored and thankful to Theo for including me, my band Bad Faces, and especially this song on this album.” - Barry Komitor

“One of my first memories of my friendship with Barry is the conversations that we had when he was dealing with the reality of his friend Scotty’s battle with cancer. This song hit me really hard the first time I heard it. To me, it’s about dealing with loss, and trying to seek solace in something outside of yourself. Ultimately this always falls flat, and there’s the moment when you’re forced to deal with yourself - metaphorically, you find yourself sitting alone in your apartment trying to figure out what the hell happened last night and where all your money went. It’s absolutely devastating.” -Theo Boguszewski

lyrics

I got five hundred dollars from my boss
It was my Christmas bonus that year
So I folded the notes and I told all my jokes
and I headed straight out of there

I walked myself up to the bar
Where I ordered my usual and more
I'd set out to be in the clouds
but the clouds turned to streams and the streams turned to seas
and I don't know what happened last night
I woke up in such a fright
Because this place ain't my place and she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you

When the taxi pulled up to my door
I noticed that I had no keys anymore
And just when the panic set in
I fought like a man, took it all on the chin
Well I don't know what happened last night
I woke up in such a fright
Cuz this place ain't my place and she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you

In the morning the locksmith he came
With a drill and a bit and a card and a name
I paid him and then I just sat
and counted the twelve bucks I had left in my hat
well I don't know what happened last night
I woke up in such a fright
Cuz this place ain't my place and she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you

Well I don't know what happened last night
I woke up in such a fright
Cuz this place ain't my place and she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you
Cuz this place ain't my place and she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you
Oh Lord, she wasn't you

credits

from A Blue State of Christmas, released November 28, 2017
Written by Simon Scott
Performed by Barry Komitor (vocals, guitar), Brian Stollery (bass) and Ethan Kogan (drums)

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