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Testo The Picture
Testo The Picture
There are pictures on the piano,
Pictures of the family,
Mostly my kids but there's an old
Picture of you and me.
You were five and I was six
In 1952;
That was forty years agoâ??
How could it be true?
We were sitting outside drawing
At a table meant for cards,
And it must have been in autumn,
Falling leaves in the front yard,
With a shoebox full of crayons,
Full of colors oh so bright,
In a picture in a plastic frame,
A snapshot black and white.
You were looking at my paper,
Watching what I drew;
It was natural: I was older,
Thirteen months more than you.
A brother and a sister, A little boy and girl,
And whoever took that picture
Captured our own world.
A brother needs a sister
To watch what he can do,
To protect and to torture,
To boss aroundâ??it's true;
But a brother will defend her
For a sister's love is pure,
Because she thinks he's wonderful
When he is not so sure.
In the picture there's a fender
Of our old Chevrolet
Or Pontiacâ??our dad would know,
Surely he could say;
But dad is dead and we grow old;
It's true that time flies by;
And in forty years the world has changed
As well as you and I.
Pictures of the family,
Mostly my kids but there's an old
Picture of you and me.
You were five and I was six
In 1952;
That was forty years agoâ??
How could it be true?
We were sitting outside drawing
At a table meant for cards,
And it must have been in autumn,
Falling leaves in the front yard,
With a shoebox full of crayons,
Full of colors oh so bright,
In a picture in a plastic frame,
A snapshot black and white.
You were looking at my paper,
Watching what I drew;
It was natural: I was older,
Thirteen months more than you.
A brother and a sister, A little boy and girl,
And whoever took that picture
Captured our own world.
A brother needs a sister
To watch what he can do,
To protect and to torture,
To boss aroundâ??it's true;
But a brother will defend her
For a sister's love is pure,
Because she thinks he's wonderful
When he is not so sure.
In the picture there's a fender
Of our old Chevrolet
Or Pontiacâ??our dad would know,
Surely he could say;
But dad is dead and we grow old;
It's true that time flies by;
And in forty years the world has changed
As well as you and I.
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SILVESTRI, ALAN ANTHONY
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