Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I Was a Photograph, artist - Kasey Anderson.
Date of issue: 21.02.2010
Song language: English
I Was a Photograph |
Sky the color of a match been struck |
Sun just hangin' like the noose got stuck |
And you can try to stare it back down |
But you can’t cover it up |
Red dirt rising 'til it fills your lungs |
Your hand’s the bullet and your heart’s the gun |
And you learned how to turn your back on almost anything |
But you never learned to run |
You’ve seen the ditches where the dead get left |
And the hungry cats in the hollow chests |
And you can pin your eyes shut, boy |
But you can’t get no rest |
Hell, its just bones scattered in the dust |
And it don’t mean nothing to the TV trucks |
'Til it’s real American boys |
Spittin' up real American blood |
In Charlie company, first thing you’re taught |
Is you ain’t worth half of what you thought |
And just like everything else I learned |
I couldn’t shut it off |
So I felt like nothing when I got back home |
And my father saw me in my granddad’s clothes |
And said, «you inherit my blood, boy |
But your sins are all your own» |
I don’t sleep like I did before |
I just wake up trembling on the bedroom floor |
Always seven steps from the ghosts |
On the other side of that door |
Wondering, what did I do to earn another day |
'Cause I don’t confess, sure as hell don’t pray |
I just defend, attack, withdraw |
And delay |
You know my face, I was a photograph |
On the front page, 'neath the headline war |
And I was numb back then, boy |
I ain’t even numb no more |
(For Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller) |