I Get The Picture

(album: L.A. To Miami - 1985)

The moving van is waiting for the rain to stop
Your agent put a sign up in the yard
I wondered was there anything that you'd forgot
I guess that goodbye's got to be this hard.

One last look around the rooms that we both shared
I knew I couldn't stay here by myself
I saw a box and wondered why you'd left it out
Right there on the bedroom closet shelf.

Faded yellow photos of a boy and girl
Smiling in the blazing Texas sun
It must have been the year before your daddy died
He tried to warn me then this day would come.

I get the picture though the love has gone away
I get the picture though your memory will fade I get the picture.

Wasn't that the guy you told me you forgot
Oh what's his name who never made you laugh
But I never made you smile the way you're smiling here
By his side in this faded photograph.

Last night when I met you at your lawyer's house
I wondered bout the guy who dropped you off
Guess I prob'ly never place this smiling face
If you hadn't left behind this box.

I get the picture though the love has gone away
I get the picture though your memory will fade I get the picture.

I get the picture...