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 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 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 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 my 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

Words & Music by Adam F. Duritz

OK...I ADMIT IT, I'M A CRY BABY

Especially when it comes to the music and lyrics of Counting Crows. I don't know what it is, exactly, but this guy Duritz writes to my heart, and this song especially gets the water flowing. So imagine my duress when this song came on the radio on the way to break this morning. My journeyman changed the station much to my relief, but my relief turned to panic when there was no other acceptable song on and we ended back at this fucking tear jerker. I spent the whole trip eyes right, staring out my window at the world passing by trying hard to think about anything else but the heartbreak of this god damn song. I managed to pull it off with just a few leaking out, that if questioned, I could pass off as an eye hit of smoke...as in " no, I'm not crying...just caught an eye hit off this fucking gig, why?No, I'm not crying...about this song??? Fucking dreadlocked goofball poser...no way!" ( It didn't come to that, or anything at all, but I was ready by god, to defend my manhood). I was so relieved when this song ended and was followed by the Allman Bros. "Ramblin' Man"...Thank you Greg. Really.