Not This Year

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"Not This Year" is a Christmas song written by Aly & AJ. It was featured as the closing track on the Christmas album, Acoustic Hearts of Winter. It is one of two songs for the album originally written by Aly & AJ, with the other being "Greatest Time of Year".

Song information[]

"Not This Year" is a mid-tempo song about not feeling jolly during the holiday season.

It's not snow, It's rain coming down

And the lights are cool,

But they burn out

And I can't pull off the cheer

Not this year

Aly & AJ said in their lyric book that this song was dedicated to their grandmother Carmen who died on Christmas Eve.^[1]

This song is the alter ego of their single, "Greatest Time of Year". "Greatest Time of Year" is a happy, cheerful and Christmas song, while "Not This Year" is a sad, reflectful, and expresses what a "non-greatest" Christmas is like.

References[]

External links[]

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics