Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

oh my God, the cats! the cats! Arrrggg. Actually although the lyrics are fine "Carol of the Bells" does have a tone which is quite dark and scary.

Coventry Carol is darker now because the BBC broadcast it as their Christmas Service out of the ruins of what was the Medieval-era Coventry Cathedral the first Christmas after the entire city was flattened by the Nazis. As the name of the Carol suggests, Coventry had a long history and religious importance which made it important to British culture. For it's destruction, the British retaliated by deliberately destroying the equally culturally important Dresden Cathedral and it's city as payback, despite the fact they knew it wasn't a military target and would not achieve anything strategically. It's usually given as a warning to try to not let fear turn us into Monsters, because after the revenge goes away it's very hard to live with what you've done. It's ironic that Coventry Carol is about the Massacre of the Innocents because "Coventry" in the 20th Century is basically shorthanded for a lament for all the innocents who get caught up in powerplays between soldiers, kings, winged angels and tyrants who forget their little lives have value. The stories focus on righteous noble heroes and dark villains locked in a fight between good and evil, but then there's also the actual important subplot where all the normal powerless innocents die as a consequence of the evil and good existing, God could have arranged for Mary to give birth in the middle of nowhere, or sent more angels to tell the other children to leave Bethlehem. I'm sure all the children could have gone with Jesus to Egypt, or at least save one or two of the others, as "friends" for Baby Jesus.