Long Hard Winter - What's the Story?

Alright, it's not really a "Christmas" song and it's a little twangy, sue me. "Long Hard Winter" came about after I'd come up with that Keith Richards style guitar part that you can hear throughout the song. I'd been in a REAL Stonsey frame of mind around the time that it was recorded and I just let it flow.

The lyric was written after the fact, but I wanted to kinda play up on the blues feeling that the music brought to the piece. I wanted to capitalize on the harshness of Winter and how it can tear down the soul and how it takes a strong person to see it through without falling victim to the grayness of it all. I guess maybe it's really just an ode to depression, or maybe a ballad to the feeling of seeing the light of Spring.

~Paul Clark of Tailhook Echo