December

4’22” / Words & Music by Tal Zana

Arrangements & Vocals by Jeanne Gignoux

Written and recorded over a period of several weeks in the winter of 2003. This is the only recording where I used a Shure TLM-103 microphone, which worked nicely with Jeanne’s crystal-clear vocals.

The beautiful Washington D.C. photograph used for the thumbnail image courtesy of Keith Stanley.

December

© 2006 Tal Zana

Winter chills your skin
Let me breathe through December with you
The snow on your pretty face
is like tears in a frozen embrace

All the birds have flown out of town
and the rain is so blue
Your hands are cold
and tomorrow in your eyes
I will see that September is gone

A frosty night with you
makes me wish May will never come
Just cry, don’t you say a word,
shiver slowly
like when I first saw you

In your old red shirt
You said my new skirt
made you dream of cherry

You gazed at the sun
Spring had just begun
Breathing you was sweeping me off my feet

And then we’ll go
We’ll go someplace red,
like Berlin

You know that’s what we should do

Winter chills your skin
Let me breathe through December with you

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