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Released 12/25/2010.
Duration: 1:20.

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Tracks that reference Time for a Story:

From Fandom:

• A Very Special Time by Robert J! Lake

Tracks that sample Time for a Story:

From Fandom:

• A Very Special Time by Robert J! Lake

Lyrics:

(Heya kiddos, it's your old pal, George the Conductor. Gather 'round, it's time for a story. Now and again, every single year, millions of Earth babies are born. But only one of the years that there has been in all of history has had a baby born who, inside of him, has had all the powers of a higher deity. It is on this god-child's birthday that everyone, more or less, will gather around with their families and buy expensive things for people they love dearly. Now, we in the Incipisphere celebrate Christmas too, oh no no no don't get me wrong, we love Christmas. But our Christmasses are a little bit different. You see, our Christmas time festivities don't have a-a Frosty o-or a Rudolph, because we don't accept the Christmas apocrypha as canonical, and we don't own radios because of how poor we are. So we don't know what a Frank Sinatra or-or a Bing Crosby is. But if you point your ears at the sky and listen, real real careful, on Christmas morning, you might just hear us Skaians singing our Christmas Carol.)

Artist commentary:

Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, and Hanna Nakamura: (album audio commentary)

Nick: Boop! Hey, alright, so this is the commentary for this Christmas album. I'm OMGTSN.
RJ!: I am Robert J! Lake, or xFactorInfinity on the forums.
RJ!: The third person is...? The third person is...?
RJ!: The third person is Reibear, but she's not-- Yeah it is! It is you. Hanna: Is that me?
RJ!: It is you!
Hanna: I'm Reibear.
Nick: I'm doing this voice, trying to go for Jimmy Durante, but failed miserably.
RJ!: Oh my god, I don't even care.
Nick: But it's okay, because... RJ!: Best thing.
Nick: And doing the apocrypha, and a lot of... (laugh) I love that line.
RJ!: I love the way you say it.
Nick: I know. When I was recording and I was trying to say apocrypha, I said acoprypha a couple of times.
RJ!: Oh god.

(Continued in A Skaian Christmas)