[Intro – soft, almost whispered] I found an old photograph at the bottom of a drawer … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] Funny how a piece of paper can open a forgotten door. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] [Verse 1] There we are, caught somewhere in summer, laughing at something I can't remember now. [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] Your hair was dancing in the wind, my hand was reaching for your arm. And behind us was a whole day … that disappeared when the camera clicked. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] [Pre-Chorus] A picture keeps the way we looked … [Background Vocals: (Ahhh-ahhh)] but never tells what happened next. [Chorus] If photographs could talk … [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] would they tell me what we said? Would they bring back all the laughter … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] all the little things I've left somewhere inside my head? If photographs could talk … would they remember what I've lost? [Background Vocals: (Ahhh-ahhh)] Or would they simply whisper … [short pause] you were there. You were happy. You were loved. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] [Verse 2] Here's another, Christmas by the window, someone wrote the year across the back. [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] There's a chair that no one sits in now, and a face I wish I could call back. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] I remember almost nothing about the presents on the floor … but I remember how that room felt when everyone was still there. [Background Vocals: (Ahhh-ahhh)] [Bridge – very intimate] Maybe that's what pictures really are … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] not memories … but little doors. And every time we open one … [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] for just a second, the people we once were come walking through again. [Final Chorus – emotional lift] If photographs could talk … [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] I wouldn't ask them to explain. I wouldn't ask where all the years went … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] or why some things couldn't stay. I'd only ask for one small moment … [Background Vocals: (Ahhh-ahhh)] one sound … one laugh … one voice. [short pause] Just enough to close my eyes … and be there one more time. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)] Because photographs can keep a face … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] but only the heart remembers … how it felt to be there. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh... Ahhh-ahhh)] [Outro] One little photograph … [Background Vocals: (Mmmh-mmh)] one forgotten day … one moment that never really went away. [Background Vocals: (Ooooh-oooh)]
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