This Is a Photograph II

This is a photograph

A dark horse from your past galloping back

Open up your mouth and laugh

At all the ugly people living in a photograph

If you go reaching for your past

Make sure your grip is ironclad

Open up your mouth, don't laugh

At all the pretty people living in a photograph

This is your father in the West Texas dirt

This is your mother young and in a skirt

This is time as it's starting to flirt with the abyss now

Give me a kiss now

This is a clipper ship, this is its sail

This is the hull of Hell starting to swell

Heaven's empty but can we make it?

This is us standing here naked

This is the siren that sounds after a war

This is the sky with a murmur of birds

This is where we once were

This is returning to earth

And this is what I'll miss

About being alive

And this is what I'll miss

After I die

This is a photograph

This is a photograph

This is a photograph

This is a photograph

If you go reaching for your past

Make sure your grip is ironclad

Open up your mouth, don't laugh

At all the pretty people living in a photograph