THE WATERBOYS - DECEMBER lyrics

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December

December is the cruelest month

this time for once my cheeks are warm

After long years in the monkey-house

I am ready for the storm

Let them throw all their cannonballs

let all their strongmen come

I'm ready to go anywhere

through venom, sick and scum!

December isn't always cold

this year she's mine, I know why

Somewhere a flower has to grow

for every flower that dies

I'm stricken with fever

but my heart is strong as steel

I'm ready to go anywhere!

I can believe I can feel!

December is a trusted friend

I always recognise her face

It's a plague of fool thrown aside

forever by her soft and silent grace

She is reckless as a Mayday

gentle as a stone

She's ready to go anywhere

to carry me back home!

December fell deep in the bleak

winter time when Jesus Christ

Howled to save your baby's howl

primal truth as pure as ice

And though we crucified him on a cross

and dragged his word from payer to curse

He was able to go anywhere

he was almost one of us!