10 Things Left Behind S1E 3: “The Photograph”

[INTRO] [Vinyl crackle, camera shutter] [VERSE 1] I found a photograph Inside an old wooden drawer Ten strangers standing Outside an unfamiliar door Everybody was smiling Like they knew what came next Except for one empty space Where somebody had been erased [PRE-CHORUS] I held it to the window Let the afternoon shine through And suddenly I wondered If I had been there too [CHORUS] Who took the photograph? Who stood behind the lens? Why does a picture of strangers Feel like a memory of friends? There’s a woman in yellow With a red umbrella in her hand And seventeen written backwards Across the corner in black Who took the photograph? And why can’t I remember that? [VERSE 2] There’s a blue mailbox behind them A clock above the door The hands are frozen at 11:17 Like they’ve been there before I turned the picture over There was only one line: “Some things disappear Long before goodbye” [BRIDGE] Maybe memory is a room Where the furniture gets moved Maybe somebody erased a face Because the truth was too hard to prove [FINAL CHORUS] Who took the photograph? Who wanted us to see? Why does every stranger Look a little bit like me? The woman in yellow is looking Straight into the lens Like she knows what I’m asking Like she knows where this ends Who took the photograph? And why was I standing there? [OUTRO] [Camera shutter] Click.