Song Description

A simple song about someone who is too shy to love, so they love the people they see in photos, magazines, etc. creating love for themselves out of false images.

Lyrics

You live in an empty apartment
That you built for your lover many years ago
You think she's coming back, but you know she won't
You sit all alone in the basement
Painting pictures of the people that you've loved and lost
Better to play dumb than to count the cost

So all love's faces froze
And all young now are old
You still remember

Shutterbug, she won't get older
Take a picture and pretend you know her
Other love, it just don't matter
This will last forever in the eyes of a Shutterbug

You give everything you have and more
Don't you feel pretty yet?
Wasn't there a life you led before?
You live your life in a poloroid poster board
What was wrong with the image in your broken heart?
Did you need more?

And all love's faces froze
And all young now are old
You still remember

CHORUS
Shutterbug, she won't get older
Take a picture and pretend you know her
Other love, it just don't matter
This will last forever in the eyes of a shutterbug
Shutterbug, it's never over
Take a picture and pretend to hold her
Every year it's the same endeavor
Let love not sever in the heart of a shutterbug

You won't feel loved until someone strikes a pose for you again
And everybody's gone, but you are so young now

You live in an empty apartment
Where the sounds echo off of every cheap brick wall
But you can't hear them

So all love's faces are frozen
So young hearts can't be broken
You're never broken

CHORUS

Let love not shatter in the heart of a shutterbug