PHOTOGRAPHS
(Janis Ian)


Janis Ian - 1980
Nana Mouskouri - 1985



Photographs of long ago
The colours fade, the wrinkles show
I loved you then, I love you still
I guess I always will

Aging hearts and shaking knees
Moving parts still bend with ease
I loved you young and age improves
The song I feel for you

You grow more beautiful each passing day
The lines that time withstood
You grow more beautiful, I hate to say
Well I told you so, but I knew you would

Close the light, still the flame
Candles light the empty frame
A photograph can never be
The song you are to me



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - March 2018)