My songwriting group agreed to find a picture and write a song about it. Looking at any picture for a while I find that a story emerges. The person in the picture has their story. The person who took it has another. Then there me, finding and searching the picture for a the story that occurs to me. So who are you learning about when you listen to this?
Lyrics
The boy in the picture
looks cool and complete
poised and secure
so self assured
Still there's a tinge of blue
A cloud hanging low in the view
[verse 2]
The boy is a prankster
a sport and a dancer
cherubic smile, pinched at the side
his heart is both deep and wide
enfolding what it's holding inside
[bridge]
The picture can't show you
the love and the hurt,
treasures entangled with no good
the loss of his father
doubt that lingers after
cannot be framed in wood
[verse 3]
Now a man on a mountain
still walking his path,
sadness distilled,
heart overfilled,
paints a picture of life in the hills
on a canvas of time as it spills
on a canvas of time as it spills