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Album: Contrast (2012)
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  • I stack these magazines in the corner
    (After I'm done with them)
    And I still got the same hopes that I started with
    (That you'd be in one of them)
    My camera has shed some tears since you left him
    With nothing, with nothing

    How am I supposed to remember?
    I got the memories
    But the memories fade baby
    What am I gonna show to my kids girl?
    When I'm older and my mind is telling me to forget you
    What's gonna make me remember?

    That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss our thing, miss our thing
    Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures
    When you knew they were all that I had left, nothing left
    They were part of our history, this story
    I was always taking pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss you so bad
    Miss you this bad, miss you so bad, miss you so

    We didn't make love we celebrated it's invention
    Confetti on the mattress I used to have those images
    Tonight I came home, they were just embers in the fire
    With my hard drive, almost no goodbyes

    How the hell am I supposed to remember?
    Tell me now, I got the memories
    But the memories fade baby
    What am I gonna show to my kids girl?
    When I'm older and my mind is telling me to forget you
    What's gonna make me remember?

    That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss our thing, miss our thing
    Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures
    When you knew they were all that I had left, nothing left
    They were part of our history, this story
    I was always taking pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss you so bad

    No video, no Polaroid
    No record of the love we had
    My Nikon wasn't fast enough
    To catch my heart break in half
    No smiles in my picture frames, no
    Just got them little basic ones that the picture frames come with
    Models, wedding pictures, you know

    That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss our thing, miss our thing
    Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures
    When you knew they were all that I had left, nothing left
    They were part of our history, this story
    I was always taking pictures
    'Cause I didn't wanna miss you so bad
    Miss you this bad, miss you so bad, miss you so Writer/s: Charlie Gambetta, Christopher Breaux, Kevin Risto, Lamont Neuble, Tim Stewart, Waynne Nugent
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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