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Chuck Padgett
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2003 October Daydream
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March 10, 2005
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MP3 5.9 MB, 128 kbps, 0:00
Story behind the song
This song was written during a songwriters workshop given by Lori Carson in October 2002 at The Orient Inn on the North Fork of Long Island. The song came from an exercise in which the phrase "A photograph of the two of us" was used to trigger memories as a means of inspiring lyrics. Each of us who attended the workshop recorded our songs individually and we released a CD as a collective effort. My song was recorded at home on a Yamaha MD-8 MiniDisc 8 track machine. All vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums & Chapman Stick by Chuck Padgett.
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Somewhere in a photobox or an album There's a picture of us Filed away in a bookcase or a closet There's a picture of us Someone in a previous life with a camera Took a picture of us I wanted a copy but I never saw it The picture of us We're still together somewhere But it isn't here A split second recorded forever From that memorable year Somebody told us to get in the frame I thought I'd be glad when the print finally came But I never obtained what would have become Just a bittersweet souvenir Some seventeen years slipped away now I'm trapped on an island In a picture of us The subjects have changed but the story's the same in the caption For the picture of us A diner at breakfast you held out your hand with a camera Took a picture of us I wanted a copy but I never saw it The picture of us We're still together somewhere But it isn't here A split second recorded forever From this memorable year You held out your camera so we'd fit in the frame I thought I'd be glad when the print finally came But I never obtained what would have become Just a bittersweet souvenir It's no wonder I'm camera shy Can't look the camera square in the eye Especially when someone is there by my side Reminding me something has died The way things worked out it's probably best I don't have it A picture of us If I had one to look at I don't think that I could enjoy it A picture of us Instead of the good I'd remember the bad if I saw it A picture of us I think if I had one I'd probably want to destroy it A picture of us We're still together somewhere But it isn't here A split second recorded forever From some miserable year In a flash something changed it was never the same I thought I'd be glad when the print finally came But I never obtained what would have become Just a bittersweet souvenir
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