Bleachers - Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call (Official Music Video)

“Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call” by Bleachers is out now everywhere: bleachers.ffm....
"it's finally happened. finally here in full after popping its head out here and there for years. from tac talent shows to acoustic moments it's been wanting to come alive. here it is. for everyone who experiences the holidays as a time to clean out those who have done you wrong."
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CREDITS
Director: Clare Gillen
Executive Producer: Emily Hillgren
DP: Connor Ellmann
Dancer: Erin Murray
AD: Dylan McGale
Production Manager: Ben Weinswig
Gaffer: Ezra Robinson
Key Grip: Brad Powers
Electric: Jackson Mach
Electric: Yorgo Tzoytzoyrakos
Grip: Valfrie Tabian Jr.
Production Designer: Natalie Falt
SFX: Salvador Venegas
Art Director/Lead Man: Roman Salcedo
Set Dresser: Thomas Lewinski
Art PA: Caleb Lanier
PA: Carlo Roselli
PA: Alexa Casale
PA: Alex Gutierrez-Kovner
LYRICS
To the tempo of your uptight
Is the flicker of a street light
You know this moment don’t ya
And time is strangely calm now
‘Cause everybody’s gone it’s
Just you and your anger
Oh golden boy don’t act like you were kind
You were mine but you were awful every time
So don’t tell them what you told me
Don’t hold me like you know me
I would rather burn forever
But you should know that I died slow
Running through the halls of your haunted home
And the toughest part is that we both know
What to happened to you
Why you’re out on your own
Merry Christmas, please don’t call
You really left me on the line kid
Holding all your baggage
You know I’m not your father
Who says welcome to your uptight
While it flickers like a street light
He flickers through your damage
Oh golden boy you shined a light on our home
And at your best you were magic we were sold but don’t tell em what you told me
Don’t even tell em that you know me
I would rather burn forever
But you should know that I died slow
Running through the halls of your haunted home
And the toughest part is that we both know
What happened to you
Why you’re out on your own
Merry Christmas, please don’t call
One ticket out of your heavy gaze
I want one ticket off of your carousel
I want one ticket out of your heavy gaze
I want one ticket off of your carousel
But you should know that I die slow
Running through the halls of your haunted home
And the toughest part is that we both know
What happened to you
Why you’re out on your own
Merry Christmas, please don’t call
Merry Christmas
I’m not yours at all
Merry Christmas
Please don’t call me
Please don’t call me
Please don’t call me
Please don’t call me

[@whatevershewants]

i don't want festive christmas music. i want songs like this that makes me feel like i am collapsing in the snow

[@BéatriceMouretdeMerteuil]

same !!

[@ksenijajemensek6126]

Same

[@ПутинлюбитРамзанКадыровлюбитУк]

Andy McCoy - Xmas song:D kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYi6Y5-pYqppeLcsi=Uci4lUWhr7GUym9G

[@corneliawiditaa1190]

same😅

[@tommasosilvestro]

say hi to Phoebe Bridgers' So Much Wine EP

[@AbbyLyle-o6s]

WOW A CHRISTMAS SONG THAT ACTUALLY CAPTURES HOW MELANCHOLIC THE SEASON REALLY IS. IT IS A GREAT DAY FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER GOTTEN OVER ANYTHING EVER! (AKA ME) OBSESSED TRULY. MERRY CHRISTMAS, PLEASE ONLY JACK CAN CALL!

[@georgecharres6198]

Give "never on the day you leave" by John Mayer a listen... Same vibes

[@jahnsgar]

Check "tis the damn season" by Taylor

[@mimicore.1975]

Just for the vibes, check oh miss believer by twenty one pilots

[@andrewcarriero2476]

River by Joni Mitchell??

[@joaosalazarbraga]

Are we sure it's the first ever?

[@hlebnibulka]

this will become a classic

[@miles62546]

Amén

[@LIBOFFENDER44]

No

[@SojusznikSwobody]

Hopefully

[@melissaphenix1994]

Amen

[@melissaphenix1994]

Yup

[@mileds]

Jack, the human you are.

[@VinylOasis-t8s]

louder

[@EvWuzhere]

....well, what else would he be??

[@mileds]

@@EvWuzhere that's not whaf it means but ok

[@baunylha.]

U know, I know

[@polinawein4374]

​@mileds, what does it actually mean?

[@_MG_06]

It’s nearly February and I’m still listening it, this song is perfect for Christmas and for winter

[@shanghaianddry1581]

There's a Welsh word, Hiraeth, which means that you're homesick for a place you've never been. This song makes my heart feel like that. Jack, thank you

[@coveredindaisies8693]

Just fyi for this word it’s welsh and relates to wales, it doesn’t mean a home you’ve never been to, it means longing for a home you can’t return to (wales) x

[@treeconroy]

Song "Homesick" by my fave band, Soul Asylum.💕

[@ambiguous974]

Thanks for this. I'll have to remember that.

[@tayIorswif]

​@@coveredindaisies8693 yes I stumbled upon it a while back it's so pretty

[@wasserman7273]

That's Saudade

[@TEWay-ot3gp]

If you got out, you did it for a reason. Don't look back, move forward. Please don’t call

[@jordie_m2]

The very first modern Christmas song I've actually loved. This definitely can be compared with the classics.

[@bg695]

This and Boots by the Killers are my 2 unconventional Xmas favs

[@Sweeet2th]

The official soundtrack of The No Contact Christmas that so many of us are having this year. 🥺

[@stellaa.stclairr]

yes!!!

[@Mmcay]

Like I still wish you well, but I’m just not able to be a part of all the bs anymore

[@stellaa.stclairr]

@@Mmcay real.

[@heartofartichoke4340]

Yup

[@sarahwilliams620]

OMG! Yes!!!!!! Perfect description!

[@hcll707]

chat i fear i am utterly in love with someone who feels like this song

[@argento-pyrite]

Jerma, just let it go. Chat is not real. You've retired. It wasn't your fault. You don't have to do bits anymore. It's OK. Anyways, Merry Christmas to you and your family but please don't call. (Also, also, in case ya don't know, this is just a joke, dude lol. Dw about "Jerma" they are doing fine)

[@hcll707]

@@argento-pyrite emman, i fear that you've stolen my heart with ur wits LMAOOO 😭 merry christmas to you and your family as well, but I can't promise i won't call.

[@miles62546]

You are cooked

[@whyyousomean2183]

same to be honest. i swear i don't want to have nothing to do with him yet if he called me i wouldn't mind...chat...how cooked am i?

[@emmakuglerr]

no i get you bro i get you so much

[@hazelblack4140]

I really like how this song is different from other songs about failed relationships, because it feels so much more like a song about grief, which is often an overlooked part of healing from these kinds of relationships.

[@colsontwbecker]

I feel like this is the best Christmas song I've heard in years, my favourite

[@ahkh47]

I thought it was The Smiths when I first heard it

[@paobahji1103]

@@ahkh47 SAMEEEEE OMG

[@lolidk3216]

It's absolute hell having love for someone who is a carbon copy of this song

[@MooperLoops]

God damn, I really needed this song. I feel like people hardly talk about how difficult the holiday’s are, especially as you get older and are prone to more loss. The magic of the season is tainted and just like that it’s a January again. Merry Christmas, please don’t call.

[@mileds]

BUT YOUUU SHOULDD KNOWW THAT I DIEDDD SLOWWW, RUNNING THROUGH THE HALLS OF YOURR HAUNTED HOMEE, AND THE TOUGHEST PART IS THAT WE BOTHHH KNOWWW, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUUUU, WHY YOU'RE OUT ON YOURR OWWNN, MERRYYYY CHRISTMMAASSSS, PLEASEEEE DON'TTTT CALLLLL💔💔🗣🗣🗣🗣💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@kbonemcduffenstein]

Please don't call*

[@JúliaHeofacker]

@@kbonemcduffenstein please dont call (im the eco)

[@wassy8188]

I could replay this song forever, it makes me want to float

[@kts_corner]

I honestly think that Jacks best music is his own. It’s like he saves all of those very intimate feelings and surrounds them in his music. Also, I love the sax.

[@dabflies]

I could totally hear Taylor Swift singing this too though

[@miles62546]

@@dabfliesyou are alone on this one buddy

[@daniella8913]

i can’t describe exactly what feeling you’ve captured with this song but i can feel it and that is incredible

[@Psycho6098]

This is the purest Bleachers sound for me.

[@nugrohofirmantoro]

I feel like i've known this song my whole life

[@aasaestetich4192]

❤🫂

[@nat4355]

how do i explain to my friends that this song is not just about christmas but it's literally sirius and regulus writing to each other

[@nihelsafi8911]

First time I don’t want for a song to go viral, I want it all for me 🥺

[@laceymarsh238]

Can we share? 🫴💚🫳

[@nihelsafi8911]

@@laceymarsh238 lol ofc❤️

[@hannahl5838]

You jinxed it

[@Vanseyy]

THE TOUGHEST PART IS THAT WE BOTH KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU WHY YOU’RE OUT ON YOUR OWN!!!!!!! This captures the “you dug your own grave” proverb so well

[@Sola453]

Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call To the tempo of your uptight Is the flicker of a street light You know this moment don't ya And time is strangely calm now 'Cause everybody's gone it's Just you and your anger Oh golden boy don't act like you were kind You were mine but you were awful every time So don't tell them what you told me Don't hold me like you know me I would rather burn forever But you should know that I died slow Running through the halls of your haunted home And the toughest part is that we both know What to happened to you Why you're out on your own Merry Christmas, please don't call You really left me on the line kid Holding all your baggage You know I'm not your father Who says welcome to your uptight While it flickers like a street light He flickers through your damage Oh golden boy you shined a light on our home And at your best you were magic we were sold But don't tell em what you told me Don't even tell em that you know me I would rather burn forever But you should know that I died slow Running through the halls of your haunted home And the toughest part is that we both know What happened to you Why you're out on your own Merry Christmas Please don't call One ticket out of your heavy gaze I want one ticket off of your carousel I want one ticket out of your heavy gaze I want one ticket off of your carousel But you should know that I die slow Running through the halls of your haunted home And the toughest part is that we both know What happened to you Why you're out on your own Merry Christmas Please don't call Merry Christmas I'm not yours at all Merry Christmas Please don't call me Please don't call me Please don't call me Please don't call me

[@mrldvu]

singlehandedly saving me and accompanying me in my healing journey

[@stellaa.stclairr]

heavy on this

[@perun674]

I randomly came across this song and I can't believe how much I love it. the lyrics, the vocals, the music. it's just perfect for this time of year

[@Palomastaring]

It happened to me too the first time I came across Bleachers - the song was All My Heroes 🤍

[@SophiaBryant-v8b]

Most Christmas songs are from the perspective of festive and colorful instead of seasonal this one pretty much hits on the nail how melancholy and almost sad(?) the season actually is. probably one of the best songs I've ever heard

[@ENDERFLOWERZ]

"You should know, that i died slow, running through the halls of your haunted home" hits so hard after ending a year and a half relationship when throughout 9 months of it, they stopped caring snd putting effort while i was fighting for everything, until November i couldnt do it anymore

[@sayanidas6292]

Same. Came out from a 3 years relationship. It was good in first 1.5 years .

[@clausschneberg6992]

This happened to me, but with a 14 year relationship and 2 kids

[@petitpedro]

Merry Christmas for us adults, this is glorious.

[@sarahwilliams620]

I’m not a huge Swiftie geek but this has the same chord progressions and under beats as the bridge of “you’re on your own kid” which he produced. I hear this as a companion piece to those that need to own their place and future. And. I. Love. It.

[@ulrichgerhardosterloh6069]

Really is the same.. makes me question the whole song.. probably just commercial song writing, in two different ways

[@Leo36868]

Maybe because you should know Jack has produced many of Taylor's songs.

[@wherkaz]

@@ulrichgerhardosterloh6069 rappers use the same beats all the time lol

[@wassy8188]

dont ever break no contact 😌

[@jerrodzaneplummer]

Its okay... I remember all the people that did the best the best. You're doing quite well for yourself 😅

[@adyaparamitaputripratama2786]

Unfortunately, I had to break contact because of my overthinking (since we were a part of the same group) about some things. Now, I don't know if I want to block him or not from my second acc (which I rarely use unless I update my other friends about things that are going on in my life)

[@haute03]

@@adyaparamitaputripratama2786 Block him. 💜

[@rajanyasen7833]

The song is a person we’ve all loved once.

[@kyandroalt.7233]

Don’t tell em what you told me, dont even that u know me. I WOULD RATHER HURT ALONE. Powerfull ahh line

[@renlessard]

"Tell me terrible things with beautiful melodies" - Tom Waits

[@jocksteeluk]

This is an instant classic, it's about time a new Christmas song came out, something to join "last Christmas" as the sad Christmas song of choice.

[@Littlejoanieo]

First time in a long time I’ve ever felt Christmas song actually speak to my soul. I needed this.

[@babyslothbooks]

May this love never find me again

[@sadie_wolfepancakes4651]

I found this song recently after being ghosted by someone who I thought, for nearly 3 years, was my best friend, the same someone who was like a brother to me, really. All because he found new people to be friends with, and got back with his toxic ex-boyfriend, so now I don't matter. Going into the holiday season without him really sucks, and despite the fact he was a walking red flag, I still miss him and our talks. He really did leave me on the line, while holding all of his baggage. Thank you Bleachers for this masterpiece. Merry Christmas, and of course, please don't call; you know who you are. 🎄

[@meredithgrey4108]

This song has captured calm, moody, melancholy Christmas perfectly. That is my absolute favourite type of song, especially Christmas song. Jack Antonoff, your ability to capture mood in your songwriting stuns me again. I love everything about this song. Brilliant.

[@haroldasdaunora]

This song, I found it on a meme page in instagram and I did NOT expect it to hit me in the feels so much... However, the flow, the melancholy... This one, this is a gem. It will become a classic for many, many years to come.

[@afterglowtay]

this song embodies nostalgia

[@Polkadot-gy5uw]

Diddy embodys oil

[@zi8803]

A Jewish men singing about Christmas and me a Muslim girl absolutely loving ittt that is arttt, thanksss jackk♥️

[@RyannaArcher]

music brings us all together

[@1ConfidentWreck]

❤

[@hcll707]

thank you for bringing back melancholy christmas, bleachers

[@natasharanawake6866]

This is not just my favorite Christmas song, but it is also one of my favorite songs ever. The way is seemlessly tells a story about grief and the past set against the backdrop of Christmas and the winter season... It's like the duality of winter/Christmas films - We have the optimistic ones and the heart shattering ones...This song feels like the latter movie - the lead is having these internal conversations and flashbacks to everything that went wrong and it's snowing outside... God, I love this song

[@halolegend231]

This was your favourite band the last time I saw you.. just know I listen to them now as a reminder of you. In some way I feel closer to you when I listen to them. I miss you my clover 🍀

[@SebastienJoye_]

The melody lulls you while the lyrics strikes you deep inside like a morning frost in December. Such a delicate and precious song

[@burtmacklinfbi5971]

Last Christmas I thought I was getting an engagement ring. One year later and I'm alone. This captures how I've felt this entire season that I usually love so much. Thank you. ❤

[@ezekieloleander]

This is how I feel about my ex situationship. I'm so glad he didn't contact me on Christmas. I was afraid he'd use that day as leverage to speak with me.

[@pppppp275]

Can’t stop listening, it’s been over a month 😂

[@pOisen_c0ntrol]

Reminds me of ky family "don't act like you were kind, you were mine but you were awful every time"

[@mery.universe]

I think of how different my life was just one year ago and I start crying, not because I miss something or someone in particular, it's that I hate changes, I cannot handle them well, it's really hard for me to accept them. And with all that I still hope they won't call ever again

[@yoyito2020]

I deeply connect with this song. As I work to heal from narcissistic and sociopathic emotional abuse, it brings me a sense of closure. Recently, I discovered my 'friend' is a sociopath, and it's astonishing how I always felt responsible for their hurtful actions and behavior. He played the victim, manipulating me into feeling responsible for my reactions to his confusing and gaslighting behavior. In reality he was always using me and I was always right about him being a narcissist or a sociopath. Thank you, Jack. ❤

[@annewithane194]

I adore this song so much , thank u the bleachers for this creation. How i wish i can visit cold country to experience the Christmas pray fir me

[@yoonie_harrington]

I can’t tell you how much I love this song

[@tasnia8442]

such a beautifully haunting take on christmas, melancholic yet comforting. truly captures the bittersweet essence of the season 😭😭

[@KarlMat-0217]

Merry Christmas, Please Let Me Go.

[@sentim3ntal1]

Jack captures the experience of the human suffering in a liberating, soulful experience, that transcends pain into hope.

[@citonita2207]

I had a dream about this music video last night. "Don't even tell them that you know me" and "I'm not yours at all" are two powerful lyrics that have been with me this month. Sometimes a song that speaks to the most painful things is the thing that gets and guides you. Thanks for being there for me this year. A stranger desired, for real.

[@RennOhNo]

That piano drop or whatever it’s called at 2:34 might have just saved my life

[@mpelton68]

@@RennOhNo why?? How so?

[@andreardz6337]

nothing better than sad christmas songs

[@lukemcgarry4538]

You’re On Your Own Kid, Jack Antonoff’s Christmas Version

[@sarahwilliams620]

Yes! Accurate!

[@marley2113]

Jack, man it’s like you read my journal from the last year. Thank you for this. Dancing. Weeping. Healing. Bleachers forever. ❤️‍🩹

[@abigailbuchholz8384]

ok so im high but.... the way that the camera movement makes you concentrate on one screen over the other? and it kinda goes in a circle, amazing! top notch!

[@delphifarquhar1627]

I can't count how many times I've listened to this over the last few days. Obsessed

[@AmberAlison-13]

when he literally broke contact 3 days after Christmas. like. stick to the memo. Merry Christmas, please don’t call!

[@diego-ds5zh]

This is my new favorite cxmas song🎄

[@karo306]

this is the only song i ever needed for christmas, thank you, i hope there will come a time when it won't be relatable

[@saja2315]

"But you should know that I died slow running through the halls of your haunted home". God those lyrics hit different when you experienced childhood trauma.

[@venusvixen5837]

This is good ,this is really good

[@shuhuawolf]

The melody of Isimo playing in the background is so beautiful 🥹❤

[@b4nanan4n4]

Imagining that Geto Suguru is "Merry Christmas, please don't call" and Gojo Satoru is "Merry Christmas, i miss you" and busrt out into tears.

[@skejehjwndksnajekw7394]

Whyyyy?whyy must u make me suffer and cry for the millionth time about them😭🤚🏻

[@zoid4659]

Christmas is over, but god I still feel this song so much. So so much. I've been genuinely so fucking sad deep down, I'm really trying. I don't know if god exists, but if he does, I hope he actually wants me to stay alive and be well, because sometimes it really doesn't feel like it.

[@aidanarendt3442]

Dont worry he does

[@zoid4659]

@aidanarendt3442 I hope he does.. although I do feel like sometimes I don't get the love I send out in the world, I love to give and yet sometimes I can't help but feel like it barely ever returns, I wish I was someone's, someone. Not even in a romantic way or whatever just. Idk. Someone

[@aidanarendt3442]

@ keep serving others its the best way to go.

[@Julie-xr2mh]

This winter is going to be better thanks to this

[@julia-tq5sj]

MERRY CHRISTMAS BLEACHERS PEOPLE

[@argento-pyrite]

Just remember to not call each other. Merry Christmas, lad.

[@Taskard]

"this is over, good bye Harry"

[@heatherstyes3564]

I have been struggling my depression over the last 2 weeks, and I’ve looked for moments that could make me feel some kind of joy. Seeing this did that for me. Thank you, Jack. 🍅

[@flornights]

jack i love you please never die

[@theladyofthewinds]

Feels like bleeding in the snow ❤️‍🩹

[@menaammar289]

I was waiting for about you bridge in 2:21

[@-phine5427]

That’d be a WONDERFUL mashup omg

[@benistown4836]

Amazing Christmas song for those who have tougher times during the holidays. Thank you for making this. 💕

[@mode1017]

So much nostalgia here. A bit New Order, a bit OMD, a bit Erasure Christmas EP vibes. But it’s all Bleachers! Sure to be a classic!!!

[@m00nrac00n]

Very much a vibe. Glad I found this. The vocal processing creates a spacey, melancholic atmosphere in contrast to some classic christmas-type bell sounds in the background. Very effective for Christmas in a not-so-great year.

[@Drizzzzle]

I know that this meant to be interpreted for a past love but I can’t help but think of this song as a melancholic message to oneself

[@stefaniaspachou8425]

He texted me "Can't believe I started last year with you" out of the blue today. This song will be constantly playing for the rest of the holidays now yay

[@femmykusuma6362]

BUT YOUUU SHOULDD KNOWW THAT I DIEEDDD SLOWWW, RUNNING THROUGH THE HALLS OF YOURR HAUNTED HOMEeeeeee

[@dknuts]

As the anniversary of the Christmas where my then friend and situationship SA’d me, this song spoke to my experience in an uncanny way. So thanks for making this

[@arthritis3190]

hi thanks for writing a song about my father!!!

[@janiahsantos3241]

Imagine bleeding out to this playing in the background

[@Amiarockstar]

Amazing song. Has all the feels of a The National song.

[@hazelblack4140]

It’s actually crazy how literally every verse of this song I experienced with my abusive ex. Thank you so much for making this song, especially for Christmas time

[@amalmousa8716]

This song is what Christmas and the snowy cold season feels like for me!

[@taylor_elainee]

the way jack moves when he performs a song, it's like the song is possessing him. it perfectly embodies the essence of the song every time.

[@arnoldsaidwhat]

They hade to make it a christmas song didn't they? Now I can only listen to this amazing song one month a year...

[@bethswann8289]

I wish I discovered this song earlier. It would've been my #1 on Spotify wrapped for sure

[@japhiahuhndorf3106]

Gonna drive my whole family crazy by playing this on repeat this holiday week

[@barbadot9879]

This feels like a song that would have been the poignant moment in an house M. D. episode, and it's the highest praise I could ever give it

[@sugucke]

wow no matter the season it seems like i will never escape the shackles of yearning and mourning everyone i have ever loved in my life even if they treated me awful because i’ll always find a song to remind me to always think about what could have been

[@Haybalebug2]

This hurt so good

[@cassandrasanchez9298]

I have loved them since Don’t Take The Money 😭

[@SeaBassTian]

Finally, a holiday song for the mildly depressed! Jack, you talented SOB!