A Long December

A long December and those reasons to believe

Maybe this year will be better than the last

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

Now the days go by so fast

And it's one more day up in the canyons

And it's one more night in Hollywood

If you think that I could be forgiven

I wish you would

The smell of hospitals in winter

And the feeling that it's 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 canyons

And it's one more night in Hollywood

If you think to come to California

I wish you would

I drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two am

Talked a little while about the year

I guess the winter makes you laugh a littler slower

Makes you talk a little lower

About the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December

And there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last

I can't remember the last time I tried to tell myself to hold on

To these moments as they pass

And it's one more day up in the canyons

And it's one more night in Hollywood

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

I guess I should