A Long December

　　A Long December

　　A long December, and there's reason to believe

　　Maybe this year will be better than the last

　　I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'

　　Now the days go by so fast

　　And it's one more day up in the canyon

　　And it's one more night in Hollywood

　　If you think that I can be forgiven....I wish you would

　　The smell of hospitals in winter

　　And the feeling that its all a lot of oysters, but no pearls

　　All at once you look across a crowded room

　　To see the way that light attaches to a girl

　　And it's one more day up in the canyon

　　And it's one more night in Hollywood

　　If you think you might come to California...I think you should

　　Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.

　　And talked a little while about the year

　　I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,

　　Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

　　And its been a long December, and there's reason to believe

　　Maybe this year will be better than the last

　　I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself

　　To hold on to these moments as they pass

　　And it's one more day up in the canyon

　　And it's one more night in Hollywood

　　It's been so long since I've seen the ocean..I guess I should.