Second Tuesday in December, icy rain is falling down I took the bus out to the city line, and then I watched it turn around Now as I walk down past the junkyard by the closed-up drive-in show I realize that really leavin' is the only way I'll ever go It was the seventh of September, nineteen hundred sixty nine 95 degrees and rising, we crossed the Pennsylvania line We paid a judge our last ten dollars to bless us with his legal seal I guess that puttin' love on paper doesn't always make it real Second Tuesday in December, icy rain is coming down All the snow that's left from Monday lies gray and frozen on the ground It's hard to understand this feeling that a part of me is gone Second Tuesday in December, looks like winter's coming on It's hard to understand this feeling that a part of me is gone Second Tuesday in December, looks like winter's coming on (Repeat last line and fade)