| A Long December From "Recovering The Satellites" 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 Now the days go by so fast And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more day 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 the light Attaches to a girl And it's one more day up in the canyons And it's one more day in Hollywood If you think you might come to California I think you should Drove up to hillside manor Sometime after 2 AM And we talked a little while About the year I guess the winter just makes you Laugh a little slower Makes you talk a 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've tried to tell myself To hold on To these moments as they pass And it's one more day up in the canyones And it's one more day in Hollywood And it's been so long since I've seen the ocean I guess I should Na, na na...... |
| This is probably one of the best known Counting Crows songs. I would say this one, Mr. Jones, and recently Big Yellow Taxi are the three songs that people think of when they hear the name "Counting Crows" AD says this song is about, like most of the songs near the end of "Recovering The Satellites", hope. The feeling that maybe things will work out. Finally. This song should be at the top, or at least near the top, of anyone's New Year's Eve playlist. For no other reason than this song is about the feeling that maybe things are going to turn around. We all go through these spells where we are convinced it can't get any worse. But even when we are at our darkest, no matter what we tell other people, there's always that hope that exists even in the asbsence of faith that things will inevitably get better. So I play this every December (more like every day) to kind of give me that kick to try and break this haze I'm in. Plus there always seems to be someone that I meet during this month that looks promising in on New Year's Eve. It's usually lying in flames by April, but it's definitely promising in December. But there's not really much I can say about this song except that it's probably one of my all time Overall Top 10 songs. |