Various Artists - A Long December lyrics

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 pa** 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