Behind The Cellophane

Song Description

A journey through an old photo book. Reflections on a photograph found there.

Song Length 3:32 Genre Folk - General, Folk - Country
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Poignant, Heartbreaking Subject Regret, Loneliness
Similar Artists James Taylor, Arlo Guthrie Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

Behind The Cellophane

On a page in my old photo book
An image from that other life looks back at me
It cannot move it cannot speak
Or hear me whispered words of apology
Yet all the feelings of that moment
Lost in time behind the cellophane
Return to me though years have passed
And the moment feels so close I say your name

If time would give you back to me
And I could turn the tides of circumstance
I'd be holding you right now
And not some photograph that says to me "no second chance"
Yet all the feelings of that moment
Lost in time behind the cellophane
Will always keep me coming back
To find some kind of pardon from the pain

The shutter falls, time stands still
And though I know most things will change
In that photograph and in this heart of mine
You'll always be the same

As I try to turn the page
My fingers touch the loving face that cannot know
And the saddness in that chance caress
Begs me to close that book, but before I go
All the feelings of that moment
Lost in time behind the cellophane
Call out please remember me
And I know someday I'll open up that book again

Abd on a page in my old photo book
An image from that other life will look back at me
It cannot move, it cannot speak
Or hear my whispered words of apology


Copyright Rae Welch 2006 / Contact: songdog48@neb.rr.com

Lyrics Rae Welch Music Rae Welch
Producer Rae Welch Performance Steven Howell

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