Feb 9 2009

So last week's challenge on FAWM.com was to write a song about a photograph.   Here's my answer to the challenge.   I'll write a bit more later.  For now I have to go down to the Lizard Lounge and make some music!

(So... I never did get around to writing more so far as I can tell from sifting through my blog.  But basically it comes down to this, I'd never owned a camera back in February--finally bought one in June--so I don't take photos, or I didn't.  So I made up a character who also doesn't take photos and wrote about him.)

I kept a girl once in a picture frame
Now I’m angry just to say her name.
She was on that myspace kissing other guys
And that’s just one more reason why

I don’t take photographs
No more
What good are they for?
Don’t need my memories hanging around
They only show me folks who’ve let me down.

I was doing 80 our on 90 west
In my review I saw I had a guest
I’d been drinking so he took me in
He snapped the flashbulb that’s when I told him

I’ve got a picture from when I was cute
Dressed for Sunday in a starched down suit
I’d see God then at least once a week
Always wondered when he’d visit me