Photograph

by Jamie Cullum
album: Catching Tales 


Her name was written on a photograph 
Right next to her red sunburned face 
It all had happened in that long tall grass 
About a mile from her old place 
I can't remember how it started and if it lasted that day in the sun 

We said that we were going to study hard 
We held our books instead of hands 
She held a blanket over cans of beer 
I can't deny I was so full of fear 
It's just another story caught up in another photograph I found 
And it's seems like another person lived that life 
a great many years ago from now 

CHORUS 
//: When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life 
I see so much magic, though I missed at the time :// 

And there's the first time tried that stuff 
I think I look a little green 
I remember throwing up behind a bush 
And I found it hard to use my feet 
And who was that easily laid little boy who's really off his head 

It was the same night that I kissed that girl 
The tall one with the auburn hair 
I remember laughing 'cause to kiss me 
She had to sit down on a chair 
And she tasted like the schnapps she'd drunken 
and the cigarettes she'd stolen from her mum 
And it's just another story caught up in another photograph I found 

CHORUS