Mama Lost Her Smile

I ain't got much to go on

Just a box of photographs

But every picture tells us story

But every story has two halves

I keep on separate

And before and after past

And somewhere in the middle is where mama lost her smile

Somewhere in the summer

Back in 1982

Daddy took a job in town

And we all had a moon

I feel like there's one missing

I felt it for a while

One is gonna tell me how mama lost her smile

But you don't take pictures of the bad times

We only want to remember

All the sunshine

You don't live in pictures

This is real life

And there above is different

As black and white

I don't know why it matters

I just know it does

It's not like you to change things

To find out what it was

She would never tell us

About just things her stopped

But I wish I knew the reason why mama lost her smile

But you don't take pictures of the bad times

We only want to remember

All the sunshine

You don't live in pictures

This is real life

And there above is different

As black and white

We are all a little older

We are all a little warned

We are all a little faded

We are all a little torn

But you don't take pictures of the bad times

We only want to remember

All the sunshine

We don't live in pictures

This is real life

And there above is different

As black and white

I ain't got much to go on

Just a box of photographs

But every picture tells us story

And every story has two halves