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a coffee stain
dried and faint
covers up the day
i want a picture that i found
in the attic on the ground
of your old place
it's black and white
and in this light
it's hard to tell
if the glasses on your face
were the same ones
on the day they buried you
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
a picture in it's place
it's been a year
and now i fear the fade is on
it's the slowly turning down
of the well equated sound
of your old voice
the way you laugh
when others laugh
was welcoming
it's the way i see you look
at whoever was the cure
in photographs (?)
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
a picture in its place
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
dried and faint
covers up the day
i want a picture that i found
in the attic on the ground
of your old place
it's black and white
and in this light
it's hard to tell
if the glasses on your face
were the same ones
on the day they buried you
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
a picture in it's place
it's been a year
and now i fear the fade is on
it's the slowly turning down
of the well equated sound
of your old voice
the way you laugh
when others laugh
was welcoming
it's the way i see you look
at whoever was the cure
in photographs (?)
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
a picture in its place
oh oh oh oh
i long to see your face
oh oh oh oh oh
Lyrics submitted by YouKnowStuff
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Are they using "buried" figuratively here? Or is this song about someone who really died? I don't why I have a feeling it is about someone who lost his/her old sunny and charismatic disposition and the writer/singer is longing to see that old personality.
i figured it was about finding a picture of an older person that they knew and miss seeing.
luka, i'm pretty positive this isn't about someone who is actually dead, just someone who has changed drastically.
turns out its about Brad and Phil's grandad, who is on the cover of the cd (not the cd case...the actual cd).
This is of course about someone who has died, specifically about the Cook's grandfather. It is one of those rare songs that catches a real feeling that many of us with close persons who have passed on feel. We slowly lose the immediate memories of our loved ones, they fade out over time. It is a consequence of living and a great song.
all of the lyrics from Gather, Form, & Fly are butchered. sorry folks. i was going off what i was hearing.
fourth line is: "oh, on a picture that I found"
end of second verse is: "it's the way I see you look at whoever it was that took this photograph"