JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "A Long December" adalah sebuah lagu ballad dari grup musik Counting Crows.
Lagu ini rilis sebagai singel kedua dari album Recovering the Satellites yang diluncurkan pada 1996.
Singel ini menjadi lagu tersukses dari album kedua mereka dengan pencapaian menduduki posisi sepuluh besar dalam tangga lagu Billboard Adult Top 40.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "A Long December" dari Counting Crows.
[Verse]
Bb F C Gm
A long December and there's reason to believe
Bb F Bb
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm Bb F C
I can't remember the last thing that you said
Gm
as you were leavin'
F Bb
Now the days go by so fast
[Chorus]
F Bb Gm Bb
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F Bb Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
D G Em
If you think that I could be forgiven
D
I wish you would
[Verse 2]
Bb F C
The smell of hospitals in winter
Gm Bb F Bb
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
Gm Bb F C
All at once you look across a crowded room
Gm F Bb
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
[Chorus]
F Bb Gm Bb
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F Bb Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
D G Em
If you think you might come to California
D
I think you should
[Verse 3]
Bb F C Gm
Drove up to the Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
Bb F Bb
And talked a little while about the year
Gm Bb F C
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Gm F
Makes you talk a little lower about
Bb
the things you could not show her
Bb F C Gm
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Bb F Bb
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm Bb F C
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
Gm F Bb
To hold on to these moments as they pass
[Chorus]
F Bb Gm Bb
And it's one more day up in the canyon
F Bb Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
D G Em
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
D
I guess I should