"It's been so long since I've seen the ocean..."

I guess I should.

Wow folks. It's already been quite a long december. Now that the worst of it is behind me, and I passed my vocational "trial by fire" with 3/4 flying colors, I can take a breath and take stock of things.

I feel like there's a lot I need to be saying right now. My heart is heavy with something untold. But I can't for the life of me figure out what that is.

I guess I can just let my dear friend Adam speak for me. He's a better poet than I am.

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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 canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should.

--Adam Duritz