“Someone in the Picture”
[Intro]
Wait.
Who is that?
[Verse 1]
Found an old picture
Faded at the seams
Faces I remember
Looking back at me
Everybody laughing
Crowded in the frame
I could point to every face
And tell you every name
Seen that photograph
A thousand times before
So who is that woman
Standing by the door?
[Pause]
Who is that?
[Pre-Chorus]
I asked around
They said, “Who?”
I pointed at the corner
They looked where I looked too
Then somebody said—
“There’s nobody
standing next to you.”
[Chorus]
Someone in the picture
Standing in the back
I know everybody in it
I don’t know who is that
Look away
Look again
Now she’s closer than she’s been
Someone in the picture
And she’s looking
Right at me
[Verse 2]
Found another picture
Different place and year
Same face in the background
Standing nowhere near
Different room
Different clothes
Different people there
Same eyes watching
Same expression
Same stare
Turned another page
There she was again
Standing by the window
Standing near my friends
Picture after picture
Closer every time
Until I found one—
[Beat drops]
Where her hand
Was touching mine.
[Female, quietly]
No.
You weren’t there.
[Pre-Chorus]
I showed somebody
“Who is she?”
They stared at the picture
Then stared at me
And said—
“Why does she
look like you?”
[Chorus]
Someone in the picture
Standing in the back
I know everybody in it
I don’t know who is that
Look away
Look again
Now she’s closer than she’s been
Someone in the picture
And she’s looking
Right at me
[Bridge]
Turned every picture
Face down on the floor
Closed the album
Put it in a drawer
Turned off the light
Walked out the room
[Camera shutter]
…
I didn’t take a picture.
[Camera shutter — closer]
I said—
I didn’t take—
[Camera shutter]
[Silence]
Don’t.
[Final Chorus]
Someone in the picture
Ain’t standing in the back
Everybody else is gone now
Ain’t nobody left but that
Look away
Look again
Now I know where she has been
Someone in the picture—
[Pause]
Standing where
I should’ve been.
[Outro]
[Camera shutter]
That’s not me.
[Long pause]
[Second female voice, very close]
Not yet.