Mama Lost Her Smile

Album: The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone (2017)
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  • This tale of divorce as shown through family photos was inspired by all the smiling images that people post on Facebook. Sometimes, however, the pictures don't tell the real story of what's going on in their lives.

    You don't take pictures of the bad times

    "I was just thinking about all the pictures that people post of their families, and how perfect and beautiful they all look," Womack told Billboard. "They didn't used to look that way, when you look back at my grandparents' family photos."

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