“The River” by Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell intentionally gifted us this depressing holiday song about a woman thoroughly heartbroken, wishing for a river to skate away on. Mitchell even told NPR in 2014. “We needed a sad Christmas song, didn’t we? In the ‘bah humbug’ of it all.”