[Verse 1]

Hey Lucy

All the prep school guys you dated

Left your once keen edge serrated

But you left them in your wake

December 3rd

When you chose to lose your polish

Leave the debutantes astonished

Back at home on Christmas break

You kissed me

Like I was some other species

Like you were working on your thesis

For experience's sake

Do you remember

Blowing smoke rings at the ceiling

While the campus bells were pealing

For the love that we just made?

[Chorus]

What do you tell your children curious

For the straight story of your first love?

What makes their father oh so furious

Whenever the topic rolls around?

They’re coming of age

He’s coming apart

They come to terms

Where do you start?

Mamma's distracted

She don’t say a word

This always happens December 3rd

[Verse 2]

Hey Lucy

There’s your daddy’s big donation

And his sterling reputation

As an alma mater’s kin

Across a nameplate

On the wall of the dormitory

Where you told me your life story like

Like a page from Gone With The Wind

You kissed me

Ah but what would daddy say?

I could pass for his valet

What would all the neighbors think?

Do you remember

We made love beyond our stations

It’s not dinner conversation

Kids, take your dishes to the sink

[Chorus]

What do you tell your children curious

For the straight story of your first love?

What makes their father oh so furious

Whenever the topic rolls around?

They’re coming of age

He’s coming apart

They come to terms

Where do you start?

Mamma's distracted

She don’t say a word

This always happens December 3rd

[Guitar solo]

[Chorus]

She’s locked in the bath, he don't understand

He bangs on the door, he throws up his hands

The kids all get it

It’s clearly marked on the calendar downstairs

They’re coming of age

He’s coming apart

They come to terms

Where do you start?

Mamma's distracted

She don’t say a word

This always happens December 3rd