¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!

Poetic. Poetic as hell. It seems very natural that the Killers, whom I've been raving about since way back, have matured enough to feel their way on upwards from "Mr Brightside" to "Read my mind" to this. Its a Christmas single, but I hope it lands up on their next album, 'coz God knows hip-hop's shallow cyphers and Jason Mraz and Rihanna and the Jonas Brothers and Kid Rock have no use for mariachi horns or genuine emotion, and not necessarily in that order. Anyway, hear it if you haven't. If the humour and the heartbreak and the catch in the Brandon Flowers' voice doesn't get to you...well, you can always turn on FM radio. Meanwhile, my friend and I will keep waiting for that one astonishing album that we're convinced The Killers have in them.

¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!

Well I woke up Christmas morning and what did I see?
I saw a lovely señorita looking back at me
Named Guadalupe, with big brown eyes
Boy what did you do this time?

Made my excuses and a beeline for the bedroom door
She was beggin’ and a-pleadin’, screamin’, “¡Por favor,
Mi cumpleaños, stay with me,
Baby it’s cold outside!”

We are livin’ in a difficult time
We’ve been walkin’ down a difficult line
Put your feet up baby, it’s Christmas time
Cumpleaños feliz¡
Happy Birthday Guadalupe!

(Our time will come)
(We both hold on)

She gave me coffee and tortillas to console my head
Prepared the slippers on my feet before she made our bed
And blew the candles from her favourite cake
And we kissed beneath the mistletoe

I pulled her body close to mine and I had just one chance
I whispered, “Baby will you marry me for just one dance?”
Infatuation, the things you say
I got scared and I left that night

‘Cause we are livin’ in a difficult time
We’ve been walking down a difficult line
Put your feet up baby, it’s Christmas time
Cumpleaños feliz¡
Happy Birthday Guadalupe!

Deck the halls with rosaries
Wish upon a Christmas tree
Silent night please come to me
Bearing gifts from my… my Mexican angel

At night I wake up cold and lonely, bustin’ at the seams
She haunts the early morning hours of December dreams
My Guadalupe, with big brown eyes
I wanna break the spell tonight



‘Cause we are livin’ in a difficult time
We’ve been walkin’ down a difficult line
Put your feet up baby, it’s Christmas time
Cumpleaños feliz¡
Happy Birthday Guadalupe!


¡Happy Birthday Guadalupe!