[Intro] [Verse 1] There in the living room reed left to right Inside those frames is the story of my life That's my granddaddy dressed up for the mine He left this world the same year I arrived And there's mom and daddy with me at a baseball game And there's my first guitar and from there life was never the same [Chorus] [full band enters, steady kick and snare] Time lives in summary, all my big days Down to the second seen through picture frames And all of my memories four feet across And all of the people I've known, loved, and lost And each little moment a piece of myself And this is my life on a shelf [Verse 2] There's my friend Dave and we hadn't yet learned When you leave your hometown you never return And my pretty wife in the week that we met She just lost in love and she still ain't won yet Right there's my baby girl look at her learning to drive If it weren't for these kids well I ain't sure I'd still be alive [Chorus] [full band, driving rhythm] Time lives in summary, all my big days Down to the second seen through picture frames And all of my memories four feet across And all of the people I've known, loved, and lost And each little moment a piece of myself And this is my life on a shelf [Bridge] Life moves in cycles and each one's a show And in each one we fail and in each one we grow The shelf is my diary and it's all I leave behind [Chorus] [full band, high energy] Time lives in summary, all my big days Down to the second seen through picture frames And all of my memories four feet across And all of the people I've known, loved, and lost And each little moment a piece of myself And this is my life on a shelf This is my life on a shelf This is my, this is my life on a shelf [End] There in the living room reed left to right Inside those frames is the story of my life
