Picture
(专辑: Five-Two Television - 2009)
Yo, uh She clutched her square phone with eyes that never held hope She about a
12-year-old, but I
really couldn't tell, though Her sleeves went past her elbows, and when she pulled them low They covered the
cuts that ran back and forth like railroads A
short bow up in her hair that matched her shell toes She stared at me in pale clothes and stood there froze She said "Can I
show you a
picture in my cell phone? It's of my dad and I
ain't seen him since he left home But I
ain't mad, it's just my mom, she feels all alone And don't feel bad, 'cause this is all we've ever came to know This pic's my new school, but I
don't ever wants to go 'Cause everyone thinks they too cool and I
hate it, so I
hide up in my room and I
go and then I
locks the
door I
don't know what to do, my mom, she thinks she lost control I
wanna show you a
little picture before I
gots to roll" I
said "Sure", then she pulled it out slow, saying If I
told you (If I
told you) If I
showed you (If I
showed you) My pictures are all I
can hold to (What do you see in this picture?) Would I
know you (Would I
know you) Could I
hope you (Could I
hope you) See that my pictures are all I
can hold to She said "If God love me, then why He make me face this? I
think I'm ugly, I
wanna change it like a
facelift" Then suddenly she went and took off her bracelets And showed me the
cuts up on her wrists and where they made prints "Sometimes I
get mad, don't know how to take this" She showed me a
picture of her dad back in '86 "We look alike all the
way to how our face gets" I
said "You're right" and then I
laughed, but let me show you this If I
told you (If I
told you) If I
showed you (If I
showed you) My pictures are all I
can hold to (What do you see in this picture?) Would I
know you (Would I
know you) Could I
hope you (Could I
hope you) See that my pictures are all I
can hold to Aight, so this one's my favorite one That one's pretty good too, but You know what, I
gotta, I
gotta show you something actually "They say a
picture's worth a
thousand words, that I'm sure of But let me show you this very picture you ain't never heard of" Pulled out a
book and she was like "Well tell me, what is that? There ain't no pictures in that book, that's just a
page that's black" I
said "This picture represents exactly where we at We in the
dark without a
spark of hope that'll last" I
flipped the
page, she said "That ain't a
picture neither That's just a
blank page, why don't you look a
bit deeper" "This represents the
very place now that we can go It's all based on this next page I
gots to show The
next page is red, you understanding this? Well, that's the
blood that Jesus shed so you can live And you can exchange your old pictures right now for Him And you can trade it all in for what He's down to give" I
put the
pictures in her hands, "See, it comes down to this Which one you holding on to, yours or His?" If I
told you (If I
told you) If I
showed you (If I
showed you) My pictures are all I
can hold to (What do you see in this picture?) Would I
know you (Would I
know you) Could I
hope you (Could I
hope you) See that my pictures are all I
can hold to