Photographs

Janis Ian

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

Aging hearts and shaking knees
Aching 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 "I told you so"
but I knew you would

Close the light, still the flames
Candles light the empty frames
A photograph can never be
the song you are to me

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