[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
If you go reaching for your past, make sure your grip is iron clad
Open up your mouth don't laugh, at all the pretty people living in a photograph

[Verse 2]
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

[Verse 3]
This is a clipper ship, this is its sail
This is the hull or hell starting to swell
Heaven's empty but can we make it?
This is us standing here naked

[Verse 4]
This is the siren that sounds after a war
This is the sky with a murmur of birds
This is where we once wеre
This is returning to earth
[Bridge]
And this is what I'll miss about bеing 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

[Chorus]
If you go reaching for your past, make sure your grip is iron clad
Open up your mouth don't laugh, at all the pretty people living in a photograph