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Because It's December

from Tuning In / Tuning Out by Bird Mancini

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Billy:  The song refers to my many memories of December....my Mom, who's birthday was in December ("I see your crooked smile"), the Christmas season ("the Savior is a child"), the stunning month that John Lennon was shot ("The headlights burning bright"), and on and on...The headlights burning bright line refers to a couple of days after JL was murdered and Yoko asked that we all drive during the day with our headlights on as a rememberance.  There was little more we could do.  It was an unbelievable time in our lives.  We were not so young and innocent after that.  But, besides all that heaviness, I also was remembering happy childhood times; sledding down Whitcomb's Hill with a light snow falling at dusk...my friends all laughing and smiling and in the moment.

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Because It’s December
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP

A winter day
The sky is standing still
The snow is grey
I think I need a pill
(Na na na…..) I’m sliding down the hill
(Na na na…..) I’ll climb back to the top

Because it’s December
I see your crooked smile
Because it’s December
The Savior is a child
Because it’s December
The sun is cold as ice
And now I remember
The headlights burning bright

I think I’ll stay
Like hibernating bears
Inside a cave
And dream away despair
The children’s cheery smiles
Will keep me for a while

The sky is standing still
I think I’ve caught a chill
But memories we share
Will wash away despair

credits

from Tuning In / Tuning Out, released March 1, 2010
Billy Carl Mancini vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, Hofner bass /
Ruby Bird vocals, accordion, sleigh bells, glockenspiel, tambourine, bells /
Larry Harvey drums

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Bird Mancini Boston, Massachusetts

“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston Globe

Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini, better known as BIRD MANCINI, Boston's acclaimed accordion/guitar rock duo/band features eclectic and at times a bit psychedelic rock with lush vocal arrangements, blues-tinged guitar, accordion, harmonica, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles.
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