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The Photograph (& it's backstory)

from No Ooo's No Ahh's No Audience by I am not a Nihilist

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lyrics

We watched the blues intertwine
At the merger of the sea and sky
Stood still watched the clouds roll by
‘Cause when were moving they just seem to stand still
They just seem to stand still

In the body behind this wondrous glass eye
Lives a brain and heart in fight
But these thoughts on paper
They’re all on the bright side
Glossed over and on the bright side

Flipping through these memories
Yes, the page the picture won’t lie
The present seems so ordinary
Until played through our hindsight
The past overtakes our hearts

If you feel sad
Why don’t you sleep on it?
Forget what hurt feels like
Pile it up underneath your mattress
These peas will bruise you at night
These seeds, plants in our dreams

In sleep these seeds
Under the moonlight
Shapes, memories
Like trees to the sunlight

Season’s cycle
The leaves came and went
And we’ll watch them grow
To fall off again

Slowly,
Surely
Reality,
Sorely
This photograph and its back-story

And like all good stories
It started with a meet cute
So my mind started drawing
Caricatures of the good in you

But as then guessing came to knowing
Some scars had starting showing
Where you’d been too

And the drawings started changing
From their fictional shadings
To the colours of you

It said
Mistaken as a warm heart, this hot head and warm skin
Has just been heated by the sun that you’ve been soaking in

But the face behind the mask won’t laugh
It plays the devils advocate
Because it knows
You can’t show love through sadness
That’s why I’m smiling

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from No Ooo's No Ahh's No Audience, released August 12, 2011

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