Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas

"Driving Home for Christmas" is a single written by Chris Rea and released in 1986 as a non-album single. The song peaked at #53 in the UK Single Chart in 1988, and re-entered the chart in 2007, peaking at #33.
In a live interview on the BBC Radio 4 programme on 16 December 2009 Rea said he wrote "Driving Home for Christmas" many years before he first recorded it. His wife had come down to London to drive him home to Middlesbrough in her Austin Mini to save money because it was cheaper to drive than travel by train. Inspiration for the song came as she and Rea were stuck in heavy traffic heading out of London with a long drive to Middlesbrough ahead of them. Rea said "Driving Home for Christmas" is a "car version of a carol".

Lyrics:

I'm driving home for Christmas
Oh, I can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Well, I'm moving down that line

And it's been so long
But I will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away

Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas

It's gonna take some time but I'll get there
Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, I got red lights all around
But soon there'll be a freeway, yeah
Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When I get through
And feel you near me

Driving in my car
I'm driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same

Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, I got red lights all around
I'm driving home for Christmas, yeah
Get my feet on holy ground

So I sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When I get through
Oh and feel you near me

Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas
With a thousand memories

I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
He's driving home, driving home
Driving home for Christmas...

This video has been published with absolute respect and admiration to Chris Rea's music !

[markgibbins]

There’s some beautiful guitar in this song. A classic

[michaelmalvina]

My best Christmas🎄🇨🇽🎅🌲song, with love from seychelles

[sandraball]

My parents did look pleased to see me. Over four hours of driving!🌲

[JonasMixLarsen]

NO Christmas without the Worlds Greatest Christmas song ever wroted. Chris Rea is simply the best !

[Soulmetoo]

I love this song, Chris Rea is a very great artist.

[jedrzejsiata]

Jedna z moich ulubionych świątecznych piosenek. Chris Rea rządzi.😊🎄🎁

[Books-and-coffee]

That feeling when Christmas time is over and you can't stop listening a Christmas song.

[DianeD]

Listening to this song in January on a wet day ☺️ were in Lock Down feeling. miserable . Just love this song . Chris Rea all the best to everyone 🙏 peace ☮️☮️☮️☮️

[mertozelmusic]

The soothing warm raspy voice, heavenly melodies and lyrics; some mulled wine and love, love, love...
Chris Rea is one of a kind in the music history.

[bozenacwienkowska]

Nie wyobrażam sobie świąt nie słuchając tej pięknej piosenki . Towarzyszy mi od lat i nigdy mi się nie znudzi słuchanie jej.

[ЛарисаЛариса-до]

Очень красивый ролик, супер, спасибо😘💕 Крис👍🏼👋🌨⛄❄⛄❄

[lillianwilliams]

New version, love it. Still love the original. I think I have every version. Play every day. And all year❤❤❤

[diannamarie]

best Christ-mas song ever wished they played it more on the radio!

[ЮРИЙМоисеенко-яп]

Бережи ВАС БОЖЕ Крістофер !!! Дякую ВАМ за те, що ВИ і ВАША музика є в моєму житті !!! 🙏🙏🙏💙💛❤❤❤

[moose]

We flew to London two weeks ago to be with our UK friends. We rode the double-decker bus through the Christmas light displays on the streets of London. The video also shows Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park. We took five-year-old little Isla-Gracie to Hamley's, the worlds largest toy store and turned her loose.

[gizellearnott]

Love love this song I light up when they play it in the shops too this is Christmas 😊🌲🎅🌲❤🎤🎸

[lillianwilliams]

Can't keep still have to dance. Brings so many memories.
I discovered this song 3 years ago and play it everyday day after Thanksgiving but all year. ❤

[tonyray]

Gives me shivers when I hear it. The most beautiful Christmas song ever!

[avalon]

Mi canción favorita de Navidad. En su sencillez, se percibe la emoción auténtica de Chris Rea por llegar a su hogar.
Gracias Chris, este canción me ha acompañado durante años en el peor momento de mi vida, justo en unas Navidades.
Me inspira calidez y que el Espíritu de la Navidad sigue vivo.

[patrickshipman]

Does not matter what time of the year I hear this beautiful song, I get in the spirit of Christmas...