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by Melanie Safka


PHOTOGRAPH                                         Melanie Safka
                                           
Do you have a photograph when you were still in high school
               
Were you happy in it
                    
Little reason lots of rhyme
                         
Were you happy in it at the time
               
Way back in your memory
                
Do you recall the line
                   
When your heart was in it
                           
And your reason changed your mind
                         
Did you love forever at the time
              
Are you living here and now
                 
Or in the moments past
                                         
Is now tomorrow's memory and will the memory last
                    
How much of this will pass
                                       
Do you have a photograph when you were only growing
                   
And your heart was in it
                           
And your reason changed your mind
              
When you loved forever

But your reason changed your mind
                       
The songs that you once loved to sing
                      
Are ones that make you cry
                                           
And wouldn't you just give it all to never say goodbye
                
We once lived in forevers
                    
But we learned to say goodbye...
                                        
Do you have a photograph when you were only growing
                  
And your heart was in it
                    
Little reason lots of rhyme
             
Were you happy in it
                           
But your reason changed your mind
            
Did you love forever
         
But your reason changed your mind
                          
Were you happy in it at the time
                                            
Is what you wanted long ago long gone from your mind
               
Asks a ghost in dreaming
                    
Or a friend you left behind
                        
The songs that you once loved to sing
                          
Are the ones that make you cry
                                            
And wouldn't you just give it all to never say goodbye...
                          
Oh goodbye...goodbye...goodbye