Gary Morris - South December Road lyrics

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(George Green - Dave Robbins)

That old brown house is haunted said the young boys in the road

who threw stones through faceless windows as the sky filled up with snow

I watched them from a taxi and the driver said of course

That one time late at night he'd seen a young girl on the porch.

And it must have been a ghost he laughed I shivered in the cold

And the snowflakes fell like ancient tears on South December Road

Something in my heart remembered long forgotten sins

As they echo through those empty rooms and scatter in the wind.

There's a branch that's barely hangin' from a dying chestnut tree

And it sways before the window where your bedroom used to be

And I drove the old man's Plymouth through the tired Midwestern snow

And you met me on the corner down on South December Road.

Now that drug store up on Main Street has that sign above the door

They've been satisfying customers since 1934

We drank cherry flavored cola's there when we were seventeen

But that soda fountain's gone now so a bought a magazine.

And I walked down toward the graveyard as the wind began to blow

And I stumbled across the headstone nearly buried in the snow

And your face filled up my memory and a phantom filled my soul

Like the cracks that filled the sidewalk down on South December Road...