Sunday, November 26, 2006

photograph

I still have a photograph of you
I've keep it all these years
I guess it would make you laugh to know
It still brings back the tears


From another place and time
When your love was mine

A picture of innocence, your eyes
They move me even now
If I had the confidence, I'd try
To bring you back somehow


To another place and time
When your love was mine


Maybe I'm just a sentimental fool
Bringing back memories from a photograph of you

An anthropologist once asked a Hopi why so many of his people's songs were about rain. The Hopi replied, "Because water is so scarce. Is that why so many of your songs are about love?" ~ Gila: Life and Death of an American River