Today I Took Your Picture Down Lyrics - You Should Be So Lucky - Benmont Tench

Today I took your picture down 

And carried it away 

Its meaning long forgotten now 

Forgotten let it stay 

Its welcome worn to wariness 

Its thousand words all said 

A keepsake keeps a love alive 

But shrines are for the dead 

Today I turned my back upon 

The celebrated face 

That stole a piece of every soul 

That wandered through this place 

That seemed so like a living thing 

All conversation died 

Or turned to face what must have been 

The artist's joy and pride 

Today I took your picture down 

The coolly painted lips that spoke without a sound 

The eyes that followed me around 

Darin me to try and stare them down 

Today I took your picture down 

And every line intact 

But something soft had gone from it 

That never can come back 

Some warm familiarity 

Grown distant now and cold 

Today I took your picture down 

One of us had to go