A Long December

Well I can't complain too much about December. I managed to close off the year by bringing the awesomeness. Possibly too much to drink, but in all was a Christmas to remember and a new year that can't be remembered. Although I was one of the last ones standing on both occasions.

"A Long December" by Counting Crows covers most of they way last year went for me. December being a chosen cut off point to let it all go. There is little reason to dwell on the past, if we're lucky enough to have learnt the lessons along the way then it's not all in vain.

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 leaving
Oh 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
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

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 you might come to California
I think you should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 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 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 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
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

But there's plenty reason to believe that this year WILL be better than the last.