Holly Jolly 2025: No Coal Allowed

A haunting, slow-burning indie-folk lament about dreading the holidays when they feel forced, joyless, and achingly lonely. Over sparse acoustic guitar and hushed atmospheres, the narrator confronts empty traditions, ghost-like memories of lost love (or family), and the crushing weight of everyone else’s cheer while quietly falling apart alone. It’s the anti-Christmas song for anyone who’s ever stared at twinkling lights and felt nothing but hollow.

Empty Stockings

“Turkey First, Then Tinsel” is a rowdy, tongue-in-cheek country-rock Thanksgiving anthem that defends the sacred order of holidays while reluctantly admitting defeat to the Christmas creep. With a beer-in-hand grin, it welcomes everyone to the table (vaxxed or unvaxxed), lays down the law on crypto talk, and captures that universal late-November feeling when you’re still carving the turkey but already humming “Jingle Bells” under your breath.

Turkey First, Then Tinsel

"Silent December" is a melancholic indie folk ballad that captures the quiet sorrow of a joyless holiday season, exploring themes of lost Christmas spirit through introspective lyrics about unlit trees, fading traditions, and the search for meaning amid winter's hush.

Silent December

A haunting Alpine folk ballad in a slow, minor-key waltz, telling the cautionary tale of Lukas, a wicked boy carried off in Krampus’s sack for a year of punishment in the mountain depths, only to return broken and forever changed. Driven by rattling chains, low drums, and a lone mournful horn, it’s the dark Christmas carol you sing when the fire is low and the wind howls outside, reminding every listener to keep a candle burning on Krampusnacht.

The Ballad of Lukas and the Krampus Sack

"The Heart That Grew Three Sizes" is a joyful, sing-along retelling of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!.

In four punchy verses and a mischievous-turned-triumphant chorus, it follows the Grinch’s scheming descent on Who-ville, his theft of every gift and decoration, and the moment his tiny heart cracks open when he hears the Whos still sing without presents. With a wink to the classic “You’re a Mean One” vibe and a soaring key-change finale, the song celebrates the discovery that Christmas lives in love, not things. Perfect for holiday gatherings, kids’ choirs, or anyone who believes even the grinchiest heart can change in one magical night.

The Heart That Grew Three Sizes

“12 Days of Trashmas” is a sarcastic, boom-bap holiday diss track that absolutely torches “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Over dusty drums and a menacing bassline, the rapper unloads three verses of pure frustration: turning a one-bedroom into a chaotic zoo, getting assaulted by livestock and bagpipes, and finally clowning the song’s 18th-century drinking-game origins and the debunked “secret Catholic code” myth. It’s Run The Jewels energy meets Christmas rage; funny, unapologetic, and guaranteed to make anyone who’s ever suffered through the original scream “facts” on every bar. Perfect for people who love hip-hop and hate that one song that never ends.

The 12 Days of Trashmas

Mercules is a software engineer by day, diving deep into code with unbridled enthusiasm. By night, he's a passionate music lover channeling his daily grind, inner thoughts, fears, bold attitudes, and unfiltered opinions into raw, introspective tracks. If you want to truly know Mercules? Hit play—his music tells the story words alone can't capture.

The Heart That Grew Three Sizes

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