My condolences to you, a very difficult part of life. Tim lost his mum last month. Supposedly, he still performed this song, but was understandably choked up when he got to that lyric.
This is why I love this man! He's a professional, he's performed this song an absolutely ridiculous number of times, and he still gets choked up. A testament to how good the song is and his own emotional investment in it. So good!
@@chirilily If he is, he is a VERY, VERY good actor. Or, something has happened (or impending) in his life since writing the song. It's masterful! It's Christmas! It's real for many!
My women's chorus sang a choral arrangement of this song in 2017. I chocked up on a particular line every time. "These are the people that make you feel safe in this world." Every time. I love this song so very much. Thank you, Tim.
Saw this live just before covid hit and had a 'moment' with the complete stranger next to me when we both recognised the intro. Should have had tissues to hand.
It's really weird when you have a favorite artist like Tim that you've known for so long and you feel like you're a close friend to him, you see him singing an old song about his family, getting emotional about how much his life changed, and you just cry through the whole thing like this thing happened to a friend, but again, he has no idea who you are hahaha damn, music is weird. This song is amazing, Tim is amazing.
Same here… my mum died on Xmas eve 2015… so Xmas is very bittersweet now... But you gotta pass on those traditions that you loved so much and pay it forward to keep those memories alive. Sorry for your loss.
@houstondragon the first year is the hardest! I'm sorry for your loss! I lost my Mom when I was 20 years old back on Nov 6, 1998 after she battled cancer for 15 years. It does get easier.... and it does get harder....I don't care how old a person is, they're never ready to lose their Mom! I wish you the best for this season and every season after!
By the time you read this, I'll probably be gone. Discovered Tim in Upright, one of the funniest yet moving shows I've ever seen. Tim and I share a lot of his religious philosophy, and I grew up in Australia before moving to Florida, where one tends to keep this these things to oneself. But, just like like him, I really do love Xmas and all of the emotion and "safe space" that comes with it. So, after 70 years, I can honestly say that this is far and away the finest Xmas songnI've ever heard. Thanks so much, Tim.
I hope you're still here. I hope somehow things turned around. If you're still counting the days, I hope you go with love and peace. And if you're already gone, I hope wherever you are now, you're at rest and in no pain. Whatever the case, I think you have excellent taste in Christmas songs, and I see and appreciate you.
I love this song. We never had white wine in the sun at Christmas in the UK (it's always overcast and raining, lol). But my dearly departed Mum, who loved her white wine, was our sun. She would have loved this ♥
I am 21 and Autistic. Christmas for me is always about family and being together. I have had a hard time lately with Uni and depression and this song makes me and my mum cry. We also lost my great grandmother(who's favourite drink was white wine) on Dec 23rd 2018(mum's birthday), right before this was released we got the news that a family member had died by suicide after decades of serious illness and agony, Christmas was her thing. Hug your daughter for us all and let her know that it does get easier eventually. It is an uphill battle but the hill can be conquered.
Caderyn, A friend of mine told me this was her " new favorite Xmas song and to check out TH-cam". so here I am. total coincidence, my mother's birthday is also December 23! last night she turned 88! Merry Christmas.
I feel this song is almost an anthem for all us Aussie expats in London, of which Minchin is one. Nine thousand miles is the actual distance between London and Perth, both his hometown and mine. I think that every Christmas, Aussies in London can find some enjoyment in the classic northern hemisphere christmas - the Oxford Street lights and the snow outside, the cosy indoor dinners by the fire - but we can't help but miss the blazing sun of the aussie christmas, the heat of the barbecue, the beach cricket on boxing day, the drinking white wine with our dad and our brothers, our sisters, our gran and our mum :')
This is the kind of song you can write when you're young, your parents are alive, and your babies are babies ... and then fast forward 12 years and it completely WRECKS YOU because now you know. This is how it felt for me the first time, Tim. Great job of holding it together, and thank you for this song. It won't be long before drinking white wine in the sun won't mean Australia ,,, it will mean even more.
good to see I'm not the only one who can't get through the complete song without having sudden sight problems and breathing issues :) Thanks for the perfect Christmas song Tim. been enjoying it for years and it "hits" as well (if not better) as the first time ...
Imagine having your dad write this song about you. I can’t. What an amazing father/daughter relationship- and I’m sure he’s just as wonderful with his son. Beautiful.
Only thing that might come close is imagining your son writing this song about you. How proud I'd be if my son grew up to tell his own daughter this about our family - now there's a life goal :)
And it's time to open up Christmas 2023 with the weeping through this brilliantly crafted emotion fest of an Xmas song. Thank you as always Tim Minchin.
And this Christmas he’ll be missing his mum too 😢 My dad’s been gone for 12 years but I love singing along with Tim and thinking of my dad every year. Thank you Tim ❤❤
@@janetmiddleton2535 Ah yes. I admit- I am à songwriter and when I first found this song I realized it would get harder and harder to sing. But that is its profound beauty and he was strong enough to bring us this emotional masterpiece.
I keep coming back to this performance vs others that are available because I find it hits differently. It moves me every time how emotional he gets because I can only imagine how different Christmas looks now for his family than when he first wrote the song. It makes me reflect on how my Christmases have changed and how children are growing. His precious infant daughter would no longer be an infant but his message for her still holds true.
I guess the strangest thing about writing a timeless song is that it's timeless for everyone but yourself. That makes it such a huge privilege to be able to hear this now. I have loved this song for years and I have so much appreciation and respect for this performance of it.
I love this song! My parents died over 40 years ago, I can still fondly remember past Christmases with them. But this Christmas will be very different - my beloved 32yo son ended his life in April after years of struggling with mental illness - he was a committed Christian but loved Tim’s songs (even Tim’s song “Thank you God”). My heart is broken.
My son is 6 and my daughter is 5 months. This song has me at my desk at work bawling my eyes out as i listen to this 6 letter word sing words directly from my heart. Thank you Tim. For being you. Edit: i want to expand. Ive been questioning how do i share the significance of a holiday to my children when i, myself, am jaded by all the information ive obtained directly disputing my childhood. Then you made it clear. Its not about the presents, or the religion, or the food. Its the people who will always be there for you and embracing them with everything you got.
Hands down my favourite Christmas song. Especially hit home when I was living in Norway and came home to NZ for Christmas with our newborn daughter. ❤ Still brings tears to my eyes.
I'm 20 and I have autism. Christmas is a pretty rough time for me, and although I don't have children, and I'm not particularly close with my family, but this song was very kind, and I'm so glad people have this feeling of family always there.
I've always enjoyed this song, but I just had the chance to see Back, and when I realized he was ending on this, I started bawling and a half hour later I haven't stopped. It's been a decade of loss for my family; starting eight years ago we lost my uncle to cancer, two cousins to suicide, both my maternal grandparents, my aunt in a car crash, and now my remaining Grandpa no longer remembers who most of us are. We normally have Christmas at their place, but with the Alzheimer's and both being in their mid 80s, we decided it was best this year to stay home so they wouldn't risk catching the family cold. Though I believe it was the right decision, knowing that this might be Grandpa's last Christmas (he has cancer now too) left me utterly heartbroken. This song is just as powerful in evoking memories as it is in sowing anticipation. I can look back with gratitude for the holiday seasons spent with those no longer with us, and it redoubles my thankfulness for those we still have. I'm not an atheist like Tim, but his vision of Christmas as being all about family is a beautiful one. Whether you believe or not, the love we share with each other is the most important force in the world. Thanks for reminding us of that with this song, Tim.
This song used to be beautiful but mourning to me. Now it's powerfully positive. I didn't feel safe when I was growing up. My 3 month old son will. He's surrounded by people who want to make him feel safe in the world and last week I watched him be handed round the room as we introduced him to my partners amazing extended family. This song was in my head as the emotional soundtrack the whole time. In fact I dont think I've stopped singing it since he was born. Thank you Tim x
My son was killed in a car accident when he was 22, and this song turns on the waterworks every time! Maybe that's why I love it - maybe I love it in spite of that. Either way, it's an incredible song with an incredible message at its heart!
Spot on! Personally this song makes me all teary eyed thinking about the barbeques my parents will hold with my siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins each summer. With me and my mum sitting by the lawn drinking white wine and eating strawberries as my dad grills. My absolute favourite time of year that.
This song will always make me cry in the sweetest way. I think it is extra powerful this year, thinking about the change in Tim's family Christmas after the death on his mum recently. We love you Tim and your music is timeless
This is the one Christmas song I listen to every single year. Mostly because I think it's great but also because I'm from the Southern hemisphere and it's nice to have a song that's not about snow
ive had a reasonably rough go at it as far as a western man goes. i dont cry much.but as soon as i hear drinking white wine with my mum in the sun it just breaks me every time. rip mum., almost 30 years. see u one day
From sweet memories of first hearing it as I sat up all night making presents for my kids when they were wee and we were broke, to being unexpectedly blindsided by it the first Christmas without my own Dad, it's fully part of the emotional makeup of my life now, and it never fails to move me.
Quite literally, the finest Christmas song, ever ever written, perhaps one of the bests songs of any genre ever written. This song gets me every single time.
Listening to this compared to the live version from 14 years ago... This version has so much more sadness behind it. Not in a bad way, but the nostalgia is palpable. It reminds me of how my Christmases have changed and how I miss my family. Good on ya', Minchin.
Am I the only one who imagines the chorus as what I would imagine an afterlife to look like? I die and all my loved ones are waiting there for me in the sun by a beach, drinking white wine...
That's the thing that hits me the most. This song will outlive Tim, his dad, his brother, sisters, gran, and his mum. The sentiment is eternal despite the limited time we have on earth. Thats why the celebration of a birth of someone 2000 years ago is absurd and still meaningful. Everyone brought into the world, no matter how austere their nativity, deserves to have a cadre of family to support them.
My grandma died in the beginning of April at the age of 91. She was in a bad shape for a while and in the end, her passing was sort of relief for everyone. She was a difficult person at a times for various reasons, but was always warm-hearted towards us grandkids. When I read the message about her passing, I didn't cry or mourn. I was intending to visit her that week before she passes away, but couldn't make it in time. It just felt like her passing was just an necessary thing I had to come to terms with. And I thought I was. For a while I thought is there something wrong with me, because I felt relatively nothing about the matter. I don't know had I become too distanced in last years or something, but I didn't mourn her passing whatsoever. I felt worried about myself, because all I felt was just a slightly depressed. However, this song hit me with a memory, where as a kid we visited grandma during Christmas and those innocent times, when I was just a kid, spending time with family at my grandma's homestead and my grandma always baked mudcake and chatted with us kids. This memory and realization that she is no more, opened me up to a cleansing sorrow flooding from within. During this song, I first time mourned my grandma I have fond memories of especially from Christmas times. Now, after hearing this song, my heart has eased a bit from its burden. Her funeral will be this Saturday and I promised to be one of the pallbearers. Thanks, Tim, for exceptional performance.
A close family member of mine died on Thanksgiving this year. Thank you for helping me to remember them as they were. They will continue to live on in my head. Christmas won't be the same.
First time I ever heard this was live, end of 2010 just before Christmas during the orchestra tour. (Opening night at Birmingham NIA). It had been my dads funeral the day before. Needless to say I sat and wept…. That night was perfect for me. A fantastic and funny distraction from the events of the previous weeks plus it helped me properly start the grieving process. I’ll always be grateful for hearing this song that night…. Cheers Tim :).
What a great job he has!! All he has to do is rip his chest open, dig his heart out with his bare hands, shred it and pour it out into a song. And if that wasn't easy enough...all he has left to do is perform that song flawlessly, with feeling and as personally as possible...oh and try like hell not get choked up!!! E Z P Z Wine and Cheesey!!
My daughter lives thousands of miles away in South Africa, and this always feels so bittersweet. Wish I could have a glass of white wine with her in the sunny Jo’berg Christmas.
Oh this is my husband's favorite. He lost his little brother a few years back and we love to think of him sitting, waiting for us with some white wine in the sun
This song will get me through a really hard Christmas season. Even though I won't be "seeing my Dad" (he passed away 15 years ago. I won't be seeing my nephew (he passed away 7 years ago), and I won't be seeing my sister (she just died this summer) .... but this song will still be my friend... ( Also the mention that Jesus died 2000 years ago and I just figured that out last year, so I had his funeral on Good Friday)... I hope "i'll be seeing my Mom"... but she still really likes Jesus. So it is rough. Christmas is still about Jesus for her. She's had a lot of Christmases without me... Daughter number 2... but It will be her first Christmas without Daughter #1. 57 Christmases with her... and now no more... So I don't know what to do. I just want to play this song over and over again as a reminder that there is still something redeemable in the holiday and season we call Christmas, even for an agnostic atheist like me... So thank you Tim for this song.
Even here in the Netherlands this song touched me deeply and choked me up. It exactly conveys the message and feelings I'm struggling to pass on to my four children, even though my own family has barely ever had these moments. But I am building it myself with my wife as this is so, so precious. Thanks, Tim, for touching our minds and souls and showing us the way things ought to be.
Best thing for me: I listen to this song because I dont relate to it. I dont have Christmasses like these. Quite sure I never will. But the longing and love on Tim's face makes me feel like I cant wait to go home and see the twinkling lights and shake the snow off my hair before I go in. To know something will never happen puts it in a special kind of reality-snow-globe. I dont even buy presents at Christmas. But I quite like the lights. And I quite like the songs. None of them more than this one.
Didn't quite catch the last 30 seconds or so through the tears in my eyes... This song always gets me choked up, but seeing Tim also so emotional while singing it really got me.
I went to see Tim Minchin live in Birmingham in December 2010, a week before I moved out of my childhood home to try and make my own way in London. He played this song as the second encore and it just ruined me. Brought out all of my feelings about moving away from the home I've always known but in such a healthy way, helping me decontextualize it as being happy that I'll always have somewhere where I'm loved no matter where I go or what I do. I still listen to this song every Christmas and choke up. My first niece or nephew is due in the New Year and I'll make sure to introduce it to them too :)
I sing this to my brown-eyed girls every Christmas, and I always choke up. This song precisely captures how I feel about Christmas, and about family : "These are the people who make you feel safe in this world." Thank you, Mr Minchin.
Fairytale in NY and White Wine in the Sun is always Christmas. Just got home from Sat afternoon gelato down at Cott after an early Christmas lunch with the family heading back to UK for Christmas this year. White wine was had in the sun while the kids were in the pool.
Been listening to this song for years and every time it starts playing, say to myself, gotta be hundreds of times now iv heard this song, im sure its prob lost some of ...... nope, soon as he sez "my da"... im a mess. A soggy,soggy mess. Seeing him have a bit of the same thing happen made me smile for a sec, then back to waterworks. To me, its the greatest Christmas song ever. Also, i live in NY, so different settings for Christmas time, but its the same stuff. Plus im listening in September! ....still gets me
Drinking white wine in the sun. Here in Australia, originally from UK this line hits me every single time. I am,in fact, sitting here right now in the sun with a glass of wine in my garden with family just arrived from the chilly country sleeping off jet lag. Tears in my eyes because my son left to live in the UK a few months ago and can't afford to come home yet. 😢
I love this more than carols. It’s honest and celebrating something at the same time but never forgives the unforgivable. Too my dad, I won’t get to see you ever again, but we’ll always have white wine in the sun in my heart.
Tim is just amazing I’ve never been moved, intellectually stimulated and entertained as much by any other performer From running around stage barefoot, crude but funny poignant “Pope Song”, the powerfully apropos “Thank You God”, the edgy “prejudice” to this obviously meaningful ballad, Tim is a musical, comical and philosophical treasure. Thank you for sharing your vision with the world!
I had my family secret Santa today, and all through out it I was just struck by the facts that I love my family, and that it was nice just to be around them. To be there with them. When I was younger... I just thought we'd drift apart, thought I wouldn't want to know them once I could be on my own. But I love my family. I love them so much. They're beautiful people and I know they're not perfect, not by any means, but like Tim said here, they make me feel safe. One of my cousins and his wife brought their baby to the party. The little baby was the first child of someone of "my generation" of the family and it just... the little tyke was so sweet, barely four months old and I love him. Barely even met him and I love him. When he's older, I hope I make him feel safe in this world. I hope I can help him when he needs a hand, or even just chat and catch up. Learn and grow little man, and I look forward to getting to talk to you when you can understand me. Thank you Tim.
I don't plan to have kids myself. Even if I get into a long-term relationship like that I just couldn't stomach bringing someone into this world. But now that that little one is around I just... I don't know. Every fear I have about the future the world is headed towards... they seem to weigh that much more heavily. I know his life will have pain in it, that's just part of life, but I don't want him to deal with anything more than he has to. I don't want him to have to deal with a world that is falling down around him. I love him, love my family, and I just... I can't stomach it. It's... it's hard to not just want to give up but I don't want to just lay down and let those I love suffer more than is part of life. I know that human evolution and cultural norms and all these other things are probably influencing me. But that does not make my love for my family mean less. They only helped it come to life. There is a beauty and a value in love, that I think can transcend all else that I can feel: Transcend despair, cynicism, and apathy. Transcend my mistakes and my missteps. Transcend my very life itself. My life can have value to me, I think, regardless of all else, if I live it with love and for love. We each contain multitudes. An entire internal world to know and by knowing, love. To live in a world where we may know each other and the world itself more deeply, where we can love and live without malice or unnatural catastrophe... that goal is so beautiful and powerful that it might just be able to pull me above all else. At least when i get so emotional. It is cliche, but that does not make it untrue: Peace and love mates, peace and love.
I can't perform this anymore without crying either. Humanity bless you, Tim. I love your middle period; pls keeping running every day so we can have Late Minchin.
Don't worry. I bawl every time I listen to this, and it's been almost daily since I first heard it. That was my family. Sadly, that ended when my parents died. But you bring back those days of sitting on the porch, basking in the sun, snow on the ground, wine in hand, with bellies full and hearts overflowing with liquor and love.
You can see how he just pulls strength from his daughter when he gets to her part in order for him to get through this song! My absolute favorite Christmas song!!! And every year it hits me differently! I've lost both of my parents when I was in my 20's, then my 3yr old nephew, and more family in my 30's and even more in my 40's...I went to 2 funerals in Jan, only 2 weeks apart. My last Uncle and then my FIL and my daughters PaPa. I have 2 amazing teenagers and this has been our favorite Christmas song ever since they were little! Tim Minchin is so real and raw and clearly he resonates with all of us listening! This is life!!!! Thank You for helping us through this season!
I'd rather break bread with Minchin than Desmond Tutu to be honest. My honest opinion is Tim is the best singer songwriter and performer I have ever seen. Tim you have touched my life in so many ways. From Cornwall to Australia I hope you enjoy your wine this Christmas mate.
Mr Minchin, we need to talk. That's two days in a row now you've had me in beautiful tears tissues are far too expensive for this to be happening on the daily. 🥺🤧
This is the first year I have no parents to celebrate with. This hits hard.
sorry to hear this , hope everythings okay
My condolences to you, a very difficult part of life. Tim lost his mum last month. Supposedly, he still performed this song, but was understandably choked up when he got to that lyric.
I am so very sorry. May good memories bring you joy amid the grief.
It's so hard, I'm sorry. Sending you peace. ❤
So sorry ❤. It's such a hard part of life. I hope you can find peace.❤❤❤
This is why I love this man! He's a professional, he's performed this song an absolutely ridiculous number of times, and he still gets choked up. A testament to how good the song is and his own emotional investment in it. So good!
He’s also a good actor ;)
@@chirilily lol cynic
@@chirilily Sometimes you don't need to act... and sometimes when you're acting, it's not fake.
@@chirilily If he is, he is a VERY, VERY good actor. Or, something has happened (or impending) in his life since writing the song.
It's masterful! It's Christmas! It's real for many!
It's difficult to remember back to when your kid was young and not get choked up, let alone the generation above you.
My women's chorus sang a choral arrangement of this song in 2017. I chocked up on a particular line every time. "These are the people that make you feel safe in this world." Every time. I love this song so very much. Thank you, Tim.
Saw this live just before covid hit and had a 'moment' with the complete stranger next to me when we both recognised the intro. Should have had tissues to hand.
The best Christmas song ever. Hands down. Thanks, Tim.
agreed and it should be on the radio instead of all that other noise they put on.
Amen to that
@@elliotjay2273 /this. I mostly hate "Christmas music"
I came to the comments to say exactly this. And also to add: 🥺
Preach sir Alex
Condolences to you and the family Tim on the passing of your beautiful mum a few weeks ago. Thinking of you this Christmas x
It's really weird when you have a favorite artist like Tim that you've known for so long and you feel like you're a close friend to him, you see him singing an old song about his family, getting emotional about how much his life changed, and you just cry through the whole thing like this thing happened to a friend, but again, he has no idea who you are hahaha damn, music is weird. This song is amazing, Tim is amazing.
I feel like this with Tool’s song Wings for Marie. Just raw feels.
@@angelaryder7777 I'll have to look up Tool's song "Wings for Marie"! I am Marie! Thank you for that tip! Merry Christmas, Angelaryder7777!
100% ♥️♥️ it gets me everytime
"..and my Mum." is my stumbling block also. She was the one that pulled us all together for Xmas each year and It's just not the same without her.
Same here… my mum died on Xmas eve 2015… so Xmas is very bittersweet now... But you gotta pass on those traditions that you loved so much and pay it forward to keep those memories alive. Sorry for your loss.
Wish I still had my dad and mum but I do have my brother and sisters drinking white wine in the sun 💕💕💕
Just lost my Mom this year, and hard when the realization hits. Definite respect to him for choking up and the emotions
@houstondragon the first year is the hardest! I'm sorry for your loss! I lost my Mom when I was 20 years old back on Nov 6, 1998 after she battled cancer for 15 years. It does get easier.... and it does get harder....I don't care how old a person is, they're never ready to lose their Mom! I wish you the best for this season and every season after!
By the time you read this, I'll probably be gone. Discovered Tim in Upright, one of the funniest yet moving shows I've ever seen. Tim and I share a lot of his religious philosophy, and I grew up in Australia before moving to Florida, where one tends to keep this these things to oneself. But, just like like him, I really do love Xmas and all of the emotion and "safe space" that comes with it. So, after 70 years, I can honestly say that this is far and away the finest Xmas songnI've ever heard. Thanks so much, Tim.
Sorry for typos - I'm writing from an ICU bed which makes for a crummy writing desk. Tx again, Tim,
I hope you're still here. I hope somehow things turned around. If you're still counting the days, I hope you go with love and peace. And if you're already gone, I hope wherever you are now, you're at rest and in no pain. Whatever the case, I think you have excellent taste in Christmas songs, and I see and appreciate you.
Are you still here? If so, how are things? This stranger is wondering about you.
I love this song. We never had white wine in the sun at Christmas in the UK (it's always overcast and raining, lol). But my dearly departed Mum, who loved her white wine, was our sun. She would have loved this ♥
I am 21 and Autistic. Christmas for me is always about family and being together. I have had a hard time lately with Uni and depression and this song makes me and my mum cry. We also lost my great grandmother(who's favourite drink was white wine) on Dec 23rd 2018(mum's birthday), right before this was released we got the news that a family member had died by suicide after decades of serious illness and agony, Christmas was her thing. Hug your daughter for us all and let her know that it does get easier eventually. It is an uphill battle but the hill can be conquered.
I love that you and your mum both commented on this!
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hope this Christmas is easier for you :)
Caderyn, A friend of mine told me this was her " new favorite Xmas song and to check out TH-cam". so here I am. total coincidence, my mother's birthday is also December 23! last night she turned 88! Merry Christmas.
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I feel this song is almost an anthem for all us Aussie expats in London, of which Minchin is one. Nine thousand miles is the actual distance between London and Perth, both his hometown and mine. I think that every Christmas, Aussies in London can find some enjoyment in the classic northern hemisphere christmas - the Oxford Street lights and the snow outside, the cosy indoor dinners by the fire - but we can't help but miss the blazing sun of the aussie christmas, the heat of the barbecue, the beach cricket on boxing day, the drinking white wine with our dad and our brothers, our sisters, our gran and our mum :')
This is the kind of song you can write when you're young, your parents are alive, and your babies are babies ... and then fast forward 12 years and it completely WRECKS YOU because now you know. This is how it felt for me the first time, Tim. Great job of holding it together, and thank you for this song. It won't be long before drinking white wine in the sun won't mean Australia ,,, it will mean even more.
good to see I'm not the only one who can't get through the complete song without having sudden sight problems and breathing issues :) Thanks for the perfect Christmas song Tim. been enjoying it for years and it "hits" as well (if not better) as the first time ...
Every...damn... time!! ;)
For some reason, someone always starts cutting onions...
@@danielhowell6605 yep.
32 seconds in...
It's just my allergies.
To feelings.
Imagine having your dad write this song about you. I can’t. What an amazing father/daughter relationship- and I’m sure he’s just as wonderful with his son. Beautiful.
I'd rather be the one to get "Lullaby" written to
Pure gold
@@isaacpianos5208 haha yeah it’s hilarious!
Only thing that might come close is imagining your son writing this song about you. How proud I'd be if my son grew up to tell his own daughter this about our family - now there's a life goal :)
@@br3669 well I can’t have kids, but that is a beautiful idea ❤️ I’m sure you have very loving kids x
I never expected someone to make a secular Christmas song. This is absolutely beautiful. A true work of art.
There are lots of secular Christmas songs! But this is definitely the best.
@@shannonjkeever477 You're right on both points. It's been a year, but I think I was referring to the way Tim activity removes christ from Christmas.
Ah, I see. ☺️
And it's time to open up Christmas 2023 with the weeping through this brilliantly crafted emotion fest of an Xmas song. Thank you as always Tim Minchin.
And this Christmas he’ll be missing his mum too 😢
My dad’s been gone for 12 years but I love singing along with Tim and thinking of my dad every year. Thank you Tim ❤❤
@@janetmiddleton2535 Ah yes. I admit- I am à songwriter and when I first found this song I realized it would get harder and harder to sing. But that is its profound beauty and he was strong enough to bring us this emotional masterpiece.
At 31 I was drinking white wine in the sun, 9000 miles from home. And this song broke my heart time and time again, in the best way.
Imagine this is the first time you heard White Wine In The Sun. You lucky people.
I keep coming back to this performance vs others that are available because I find it hits differently. It moves me every time how emotional he gets because I can only imagine how different Christmas looks now for his family than when he first wrote the song. It makes me reflect on how my Christmases have changed and how children are growing. His precious infant daughter would no longer be an infant but his message for her still holds true.
I guess the strangest thing about writing a timeless song is that it's timeless for everyone but yourself. That makes it such a huge privilege to be able to hear this now. I have loved this song for years and I have so much appreciation and respect for this performance of it.
I love this song! My parents died over 40 years ago, I can still fondly remember past Christmases with them. But this Christmas will be very different - my beloved 32yo son ended his life in April after years of struggling with mental illness - he was a committed Christian but loved Tim’s songs (even Tim’s song “Thank you God”). My heart is broken.
My heart breaks for you. The loss of your son is unbearable for you.
@ thank you 💔
@@heatherh3750 All my love for you and your Son.
Thank you for sharing. I wish you peace in your grief for this month. Please remember to do all of the self care you need. ❤
@@kirkygirl Thank you 💔
This is the only Christmas song that doesnt get old outside of Christmas time.
My son is 6 and my daughter is 5 months.
This song has me at my desk at work bawling my eyes out as i listen to this 6 letter word sing words directly from my heart.
Thank you Tim. For being you.
Edit: i want to expand. Ive been questioning how do i share the significance of a holiday to my children when i, myself, am jaded by all the information ive obtained directly disputing my childhood.
Then you made it clear. Its not about the presents, or the religion, or the food. Its the people who will always be there for you and embracing them with everything you got.
Ginger?
What 6 letter word?
@@JB-ru2zb what else?
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Gutwrenching, somber and sublime. Didnt know this song of Tim. Now looking forward to the next Christmas time.
Hands down my favourite Christmas song. Especially hit home when I was living in Norway and came home to NZ for Christmas with our newborn daughter. ❤ Still brings tears to my eyes.
God jul!
That guy shouting "Love you Tim" at 1:37, Cool dude.
This will be the first Christmas that I don’t see my mum and dad. Rest well both of you.
I'm 20 and I have autism. Christmas is a pretty rough time for me, and although I don't have children, and I'm not particularly close with my family, but this song was very kind, and I'm so glad people have this feeling of family always there.
Anybody else watching this over and over? It's breaking my heart and making me smile at the same time❤
Well done Tim Minchin.
I've always enjoyed this song, but I just had the chance to see Back, and when I realized he was ending on this, I started bawling and a half hour later I haven't stopped. It's been a decade of loss for my family; starting eight years ago we lost my uncle to cancer, two cousins to suicide, both my maternal grandparents, my aunt in a car crash, and now my remaining Grandpa no longer remembers who most of us are. We normally have Christmas at their place, but with the Alzheimer's and both being in their mid 80s, we decided it was best this year to stay home so they wouldn't risk catching the family cold. Though I believe it was the right decision, knowing that this might be Grandpa's last Christmas (he has cancer now too) left me utterly heartbroken.
This song is just as powerful in evoking memories as it is in sowing anticipation. I can look back with gratitude for the holiday seasons spent with those no longer with us, and it redoubles my thankfulness for those we still have. I'm not an atheist like Tim, but his vision of Christmas as being all about family is a beautiful one. Whether you believe or not, the love we share with each other is the most important force in the world. Thanks for reminding us of that with this song, Tim.
Right because holding back tears wasn't hard enough with this damn song without you breaking down, thanks a lot Tim 😭😂
That exhale around 4:19 is such a sign he was just about hanging on. Must be so, so hard to spend so much time away from his family.
I was reading all of these tears comments and got it, but wasn't there until the 9000 miles away part. And now I can't stop sobbing now.
It's not Christmastime until I hear this song. Thank you, Tim.
This song used to be beautiful but mourning to me. Now it's powerfully positive.
I didn't feel safe when I was growing up. My 3 month old son will. He's surrounded by people who want to make him feel safe in the world and last week I watched him be handed round the room as we introduced him to my partners amazing extended family. This song was in my head as the emotional soundtrack the whole time. In fact I dont think I've stopped singing it since he was born.
Thank you Tim x
Halfway through this, I messaged my dad, if he wanted me over around Christmas. I won't have many years left with him, you know.
I lost my dad this year. This song is just pure emotion through love. If i could play 1 song on piano this would be it. ❤
My son was killed in a car accident when he was 22, and this song turns on the waterworks every time! Maybe that's why I love it - maybe I love it in spite of that. Either way, it's an incredible song with an incredible message at its heart!
I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory always be a comfort
@@BigCheese77 Thank you! They truly are - I cherish them more each year.
Please accept my sincere condolences on what must be a devastating loss.
@@cynthiahogan4598 Thank you!
This song is not just for Christmas, it's an all year round absolute masterpiece. My favourite song ever.
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Spot on! Personally this song makes me all teary eyed thinking about the barbeques my parents will hold with my siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins each summer. With me and my mum sitting by the lawn drinking white wine and eating strawberries as my dad grills. My absolute favourite time of year that.
This song will always make me cry in the sweetest way. I think it is extra powerful this year, thinking about the change in Tim's family Christmas after the death on his mum recently.
We love you Tim and your music is timeless
Seeing Tim choke up on his own damn song, when I've never made it through past "And you my baby girl" at the latest... priceless. Thank you, Tim.
Man, this song chokes me up every time, simply beautiful. This song should be a national standard for Christmas songs in the southern hemisphere.
This is the one Christmas song I listen to every single year. Mostly because I think it's great but also because I'm from the Southern hemisphere and it's nice to have a song that's not about snow
hello, how are you doing it is nice meeting you here.
ive had a reasonably rough go at it as far as a western man goes. i dont cry much.but as soon as i hear drinking white wine with my mum in the sun it just breaks me every time. rip mum., almost 30 years. see u one day
My God dude that was intense.
From sweet memories of first hearing it as I sat up all night making presents for my kids when they were wee and we were broke, to being unexpectedly blindsided by it the first Christmas without my own Dad, it's fully part of the emotional makeup of my life now, and it never fails to move me.
Quite literally, the finest Christmas song, ever ever written, perhaps one of the bests songs of any genre ever written. This song gets me every single time.
Babe wake up, new White Wine in the Sun dropped
i'm glad it's not just me who cries at this song
This is always going to be my favorite Christmas song, and what a lovely version ❤️
I love this song so much. Tim Minchin is a musical genius.
Listening to this compared to the live version from 14 years ago... This version has so much more sadness behind it. Not in a bad way, but the nostalgia is palpable. It reminds me of how my Christmases have changed and how I miss my family.
Good on ya', Minchin.
Am I the only one who imagines the chorus as what I would imagine an afterlife to look like? I die and all my loved ones are waiting there for me in the sun by a beach, drinking white wine...
Not the only one!
That’s a beautiful thought ❤
I don't believe in Heaven, but the chorus does sound like a vision of heaven to me.
That's the thing that hits me the most. This song will outlive Tim, his dad, his brother, sisters, gran, and his mum. The sentiment is eternal despite the limited time we have on earth. Thats why the celebration of a birth of someone 2000 years ago is absurd and still meaningful. Everyone brought into the world, no matter how austere their nativity, deserves to have a cadre of family to support them.
You may have missed the point, but whatever feels dreamy I suppose.
we can't hear this without breaking up. Love the song and feel the love😘😭
What a beautiful soul! Love Tim Minchin!
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It never stops being a beautiful song. I think it's becoming heavier for all of us as time goes on
My grandma died in the beginning of April at the age of 91. She was in a bad shape for a while and in the end, her passing was sort of relief for everyone. She was a difficult person at a times for various reasons, but was always warm-hearted towards us grandkids.
When I read the message about her passing, I didn't cry or mourn. I was intending to visit her that week before she passes away, but couldn't make it in time. It just felt like her passing was just an necessary thing I had to come to terms with. And I thought I was. For a while I thought is there something wrong with me, because I felt relatively nothing about the matter. I don't know had I become too distanced in last years or something, but I didn't mourn her passing whatsoever. I felt worried about myself, because all I felt was just a slightly depressed.
However, this song hit me with a memory, where as a kid we visited grandma during Christmas and those innocent times, when I was just a kid, spending time with family at my grandma's homestead and my grandma always baked mudcake and chatted with us kids. This memory and realization that she is no more, opened me up to a cleansing sorrow flooding from within. During this song, I first time mourned my grandma I have fond memories of especially from Christmas times.
Now, after hearing this song, my heart has eased a bit from its burden.
Her funeral will be this Saturday and I promised to be one of the pallbearers.
Thanks, Tim, for exceptional performance.
A close family member of mine died on Thanksgiving this year. Thank you for helping me to remember them as they were. They will continue to live on in my head. Christmas won't be the same.
PERFECT. TOTAL PERFECTION.
First time I ever heard this was live, end of 2010 just before Christmas during the orchestra tour. (Opening night at Birmingham NIA). It had been my dads funeral the day before. Needless to say I sat and wept…. That night was perfect for me. A fantastic and funny distraction from the events of the previous weeks plus it helped me properly start the grieving process. I’ll always be grateful for hearing this song that night…. Cheers Tim :).
I have watched this countless times and cry every time. Love you Tim Minchin! ❤
What a great job he has!! All he has to do is rip his chest open, dig his heart out with his bare hands, shred it and pour it out into a song. And if that wasn't easy enough...all he has left to do is perform that song flawlessly, with feeling and as personally as possible...oh and try like hell not get choked up!!!
E Z P Z Wine and Cheesey!!
My daughter lives thousands of miles away in South Africa, and this always feels so bittersweet. Wish I could have a glass of white wine with her in the sunny Jo’berg Christmas.
Oh this is my husband's favorite. He lost his little brother a few years back and we love to think of him sitting, waiting for us with some white wine in the sun
This song will get me through a really hard Christmas season. Even though I won't be "seeing my Dad" (he passed away 15 years ago. I won't be seeing my nephew (he passed away 7 years ago), and I won't be seeing my sister (she just died this summer) .... but this song will still be my friend... ( Also the mention that Jesus died 2000 years ago and I just figured that out last year, so I had his funeral on Good Friday)... I hope "i'll be seeing my Mom"... but she still really likes Jesus. So it is rough. Christmas is still about Jesus for her. She's had a lot of Christmases without me... Daughter number 2... but It will be her first Christmas without Daughter #1. 57 Christmases with her... and now no more... So I don't know what to do. I just want to play this song over and over again as a reminder that there is still something redeemable in the holiday and season we call Christmas, even for an agnostic atheist like me... So thank you Tim for this song.
This song has made me emotional for the last 10+ years, but this version... damn. It hits hard, but that's why I love it.
Even here in the Netherlands this song touched me deeply and choked me up. It exactly conveys the message and feelings I'm struggling to pass on to my four children, even though my own family has barely ever had these moments. But I am building it myself with my wife as this is so, so precious.
Thanks, Tim, for touching our minds and souls and showing us the way things ought to be.
I've never heard this song before. I kept waiting for the joke to come but instead I'm balling like a baby.
Best thing for me: I listen to this song because I dont relate to it. I dont have Christmasses like these. Quite sure I never will.
But the longing and love on Tim's face makes me feel like I cant wait to go home and see the twinkling lights and shake the snow off my hair before I go in.
To know something will never happen puts it in a special kind of reality-snow-globe.
I dont even buy presents at Christmas. But I quite like the lights. And I quite like the songs. None of them more than this one.
I can only listen to this song once a year, because I bawl like a baby.
Anyone else love this. Thank you tim for being vulnerable and upset.
It’s good to know this song makes Tim cry just like it does so many of us. Merry Christmas.
Didn't quite catch the last 30 seconds or so through the tears in my eyes...
This song always gets me choked up, but seeing Tim also so emotional while singing it really got me.
I went to see Tim Minchin live in Birmingham in December 2010, a week before I moved out of my childhood home to try and make my own way in London. He played this song as the second encore and it just ruined me. Brought out all of my feelings about moving away from the home I've always known but in such a healthy way, helping me decontextualize it as being happy that I'll always have somewhere where I'm loved no matter where I go or what I do. I still listen to this song every Christmas and choke up. My first niece or nephew is due in the New Year and I'll make sure to introduce it to them too :)
Tears Tim. Beautiful song for your new baby from a loving Dad.
I sing this to my brown-eyed girls every Christmas, and I always choke up. This song precisely captures how I feel about Christmas, and about family : "These are the people who make you feel safe in this world." Thank you, Mr Minchin.
Best christmas song ever!! Bawls!!
Fairytale in NY and White Wine in the Sun is always Christmas.
Just got home from Sat afternoon gelato down at Cott after an early Christmas lunch with the family heading back to UK for Christmas this year. White wine was had in the sun while the kids were in the pool.
Been listening to this song for years and every time it starts playing, say to myself, gotta be hundreds of times now iv heard this song, im sure its prob lost some of ...... nope, soon as he sez "my da"... im a mess. A soggy,soggy mess.
Seeing him have a bit of the same thing happen made me smile for a sec, then back to waterworks.
To me, its the greatest Christmas song ever.
Also, i live in NY, so different settings for Christmas time, but its the same stuff.
Plus im listening in September!
....still gets me
Thank you Tim for sharing this song of love, it has helped me on my grief journey as my husband passed away 12/21/98.
Drinking white wine in the sun. Here in Australia, originally from UK this line hits me every single time. I am,in fact, sitting here right now in the sun with a glass of wine in my garden with family just arrived from the chilly country sleeping off jet lag. Tears in my eyes because my son left to live in the UK a few months ago and can't afford to come home yet. 😢
I love this more than carols. It’s honest and celebrating something at the same time but never forgives the unforgivable. Too my dad, I won’t get to see you ever again, but we’ll always have white wine in the sun in my heart.
I can't not cry to this song. Moving back home in a couple of weeks to be with my family. Life is too short. Tim, you're an amazing human being.
This is my favorite Christmas song. Brings me to tears every year.
Tim is just amazing
I’ve never been moved, intellectually stimulated and entertained as much by any other performer
From running around stage barefoot, crude but funny poignant “Pope Song”, the powerfully apropos “Thank You God”, the edgy “prejudice” to this obviously meaningful ballad, Tim is a musical, comical and philosophical treasure.
Thank you for sharing your vision with the world!
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious it means that they're worthy". So brilliant it brought tears to my eyes.
I had my family secret Santa today, and all through out it I was just struck by the facts that I love my family, and that it was nice just to be around them. To be there with them. When I was younger... I just thought we'd drift apart, thought I wouldn't want to know them once I could be on my own. But I love my family. I love them so much. They're beautiful people and I know they're not perfect, not by any means, but like Tim said here, they make me feel safe.
One of my cousins and his wife brought their baby to the party. The little baby was the first child of someone of "my generation" of the family and it just... the little tyke was so sweet, barely four months old and I love him. Barely even met him and I love him. When he's older, I hope I make him feel safe in this world. I hope I can help him when he needs a hand, or even just chat and catch up. Learn and grow little man, and I look forward to getting to talk to you when you can understand me.
Thank you Tim.
I don't plan to have kids myself. Even if I get into a long-term relationship like that I just couldn't stomach bringing someone into this world. But now that that little one is around I just... I don't know. Every fear I have about the future the world is headed towards... they seem to weigh that much more heavily. I know his life will have pain in it, that's just part of life, but I don't want him to deal with anything more than he has to. I don't want him to have to deal with a world that is falling down around him. I love him, love my family, and I just... I can't stomach it. It's... it's hard to not just want to give up but I don't want to just lay down and let those I love suffer more than is part of life.
I know that human evolution and cultural norms and all these other things are probably influencing me. But that does not make my love for my family mean less. They only helped it come to life. There is a beauty and a value in love, that I think can transcend all else that I can feel: Transcend despair, cynicism, and apathy. Transcend my mistakes and my missteps. Transcend my very life itself. My life can have value to me, I think, regardless of all else, if I live it with love and for love.
We each contain multitudes. An entire internal world to know and by knowing, love. To live in a world where we may know each other and the world itself more deeply, where we can love and live without malice or unnatural catastrophe... that goal is so beautiful and powerful that it might just be able to pull me above all else. At least when i get so emotional.
It is cliche, but that does not make it untrue: Peace and love mates, peace and love.
I can't perform this anymore without crying either. Humanity bless you, Tim. I love your middle period; pls keeping running every day so we can have Late Minchin.
Man, I'm an Eastern Orthodox Christian living in Georgia and this song made me tear up like hell.
Don't worry. I bawl every time I listen to this, and it's been almost daily since I first heard it. That was my family. Sadly, that ended when my parents died. But you bring back those days of sitting on the porch, basking in the sun, snow on the ground, wine in hand, with bellies full and hearts overflowing with liquor and love.
Greatest Christmas song from an atheist ever, prove me wrong.
I lost my dad in October. This song touches my heart so much, thank you...
My condolences for your loss ❤
You can see how he just pulls strength from his daughter when he gets to her part in order for him to get through this song! My absolute favorite Christmas song!!! And every year it hits me differently! I've lost both of my parents when I was in my 20's, then my 3yr old nephew, and more family in my 30's and even more in my 40's...I went to 2 funerals in Jan, only 2 weeks apart. My last Uncle and then my FIL and my daughters PaPa. I have 2 amazing teenagers and this has been our favorite Christmas song ever since they were little! Tim Minchin is so real and raw and clearly he resonates with all of us listening! This is life!!!! Thank You for helping us through this season!
Welp, it's the time of year to listen to this song and cry.
Saw this in the cinema, genuinely made me tear up a bit, super powerful and beautifully sung!
Well, that's me in in floods of tears for a while. Thanks, Tim, and merry Christmas.
man, having a family must be really cool. Seems like theres lots of love and people caring about you in a family..
I'd rather break bread with Minchin than Desmond Tutu to be honest. My honest opinion is Tim is the best singer songwriter and performer I have ever seen. Tim you have touched my life in so many ways. From Cornwall to Australia I hope you enjoy your wine this Christmas mate.
Mr Minchin, we need to talk. That's two days in a row now you've had me in beautiful tears tissues are far too expensive for this to be happening on the daily. 🥺🤧
Being a human really hurts, but at least we can all do it together.
I've missed this voice so much.