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Audience-members at one of the Sound of The Ladies’ December gigs should recognise this new song, written for Robin Ince’s 9 Lessons and Carols for Godless People on December 20th. It was pretty hard to write an atheist carol – if you can’t give thanks for the birth of Jesus and how nice God has been to you, you’re faced with a want of uplifting material. Inspired partly by Dr Manhattan’s speech in Watchmen, and partly by stuff I’ve been reading about how bad human beings are at judging risk, and acknowledging how much luck plays a role in our lives, this is a tribute to random chance. The uplifting bit comes, I guess, from the fact that we are, each and every one of us, the sperm that won – so we are all, in some small way, winners.

Here’s the SoundCloud version, if you prefer:

The look upon your face (v4) by The Sound of the Ladies