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 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