The Picture

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lyrics SS : music/vocals Ai

[verse 1]

There's a picture on top of the t.v.,

it's of someone, who passed away.

She's lookin' right over at me,

I say a few words to her each day.

[verse 2]

It's just a picture of a woman,

no beauty queen or plain Jane.

Probably one in every home,

'cept this one ain't the same.

[chorus]

A picture's worth a thousand words,

your gentle face, it says enough.

Look at it for hours, quietly I cry,

eyes, that speak to me of love.

[verse 3]

It's not my wife, she's still with me,

the photograph's of my mother.

Nothin' special there, you say,

but to me, she's like no other.

[verse 4]

Forty years ago, I was a baby,

one night, our house caught fire.

My mother badly burnt, saved me,

but it was too late for her.

[chorus]

A picture's worth a thousand words,

your gentle face, it says enough.

Look at it for hours, quietly I cry,

eyes, that speak to me of love.

[bridge]

I'm standin' here because of her,

now, I have a family of my own.

Once a year, I shed some tears,

grandchildren, she'd never known.

[final chorus]

A picture's worth a thousand words,

your gentle face, it says enough.

Look at it for hours, quietly I cry,

eyes, that speak to me of love.

[outro]

The kids they wanted a flat screen,

the old one, stands quiet in a corner.

I sit sometimes, staring at it for hours,

on top, a sepia coloured picture of her.