With fringe Christmas songs I mean songs which are not Christmas songs per se, but more Christmas-sy than for example Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s—”Power of Love.”
The first one is by All About Eve-“December,” the song comes from their second album “Scarlet and Other Stories,” released in 1989.
“There’s a Victorian tin, I keep my memories in
I found it up in the attic
After looking inside, I find the things that I’m hiding…
The leaves saved from a mistletoe kiss
Only nostalgia has me feeling like this…
Like I miss you
It must be the time of year
Remember December
It’s like a wintergreen beside a diamond stream
Remember December
A fall of snow and the afterglow
It could be taking our breath away
But the years stand in the way
Remember December
How does it make you feel inside?
Beneath a Valentine, I see a locket is shining
I think it must be the wine
Makes me feel it’s all real
Where nothing seems to rhyme
To breathe life into the dust of a keepsake
I might as well try to fix a chain on a snowflake
Or a heartache
It must be the time of year
Remember December
It’s like a wintergreen beside a diamond stream
Remember December
A fall of snow and the afterglow
It could be taking our breath away
But the years stand in the way
Remember December
How does it make you feel inside?
Should I feel this alone, should I pick up the phone
Should I call you up and wish you ‘Happy Christmas’?
I feel so alone, should I pick up the phone
Take my heart in my hand
And ask if you remember December
It’s like a wintergreen beside a diamond stream
Remember December
A fall of snow and the afterglow
It could be taking our breath away
But the years stand in the way
Remember December
How does it make you feel inside?”
sources
History of Sorts 
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