December of 89

Intro (spoken, radio-static effect)

Deh-cem-buh of niyn-tee eiyn-nyhn…

The year you left, the year I lost my maaaahnd.

Still echoes in the cold… (cold, cold)

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Verse 1 (UK cadence, spoken-sung flow)

I remembah the frost on the window paiyn,

Your breath on the glass wrote out my naiym.

But love don’t last, no, it slipped through toiym,

And I’ve been stuck back there since ’eigh-tee niyn.

Vinyls spinnin’, tears hit the flawh,

Every song we played don’t play no mawhr.

And I walk those nights in a frozen liyn,

Searchin’ for the ghost of ’eigh-tee niyn.

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Chorus (soaring, with echoes)

Deh-cem-buh of ’eigh-tee niyn— (niyn, niyn)

You broke this heart of maaaahhn— (maaaahhn, maaaahhn)

I’m still lost in the silence, stuck in that toiym,

When you left me in December of ’eigh-tee niyn.

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Verse 2 (cadence sharper, rhythmic)

Your lettahs still smell of your sweet per-fyoom,

But the papah’s cracked like an empty rewm.

I chase those words but they fade awaiy,

Like the London fog on a wintah daiy.

And I whisper low in the midnight raiyn,

If I called your name, would it sound the seym?

But echoes don’t answah, they just re-maiyn,

Of the love I lost in ’eigh-tee niyn.

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Bridge (soft falsetto + layered echoes)

Ohh, I can’t es-caiyp it— (caiyp it, caiyp it)

Ohh, my heart still braaayks it— (braaayks it, braaayks it)

Time stands still but it won’t re-waiynd…

Back to December, December of ’eigh-tee niyn.

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Final Chorus (bigger, layered)

Deh-cem-buh of ’eigh-tee niyn— (niyn, niyn)

You broke this heart of maaaahhn— (maaaahhn, maaaahhn)

Thirty years gone but the pain’s still a-laiyv,

I’m frozen forevah in ’eigh-tee niyn.