lyric by Jody Dickey music by Barry Morgan Looking over the pictures of her past Why couldn't those times had last Seeing a young women in her twenties Long blonde hair to her knees A smile her husband said melted his heart Those where the times before they'd drifted apart Shapely curves from her breast to hips How he use to beg to kiss her lips Twenty years ago and four children later Time and her body has become her traitor For the blessing of each child that was born She never change a single day Only for the woman in the picture does she mourn Long blonde hair now streaked with gray The hazel blue eyes that looked for love from him Are often filled with tears The smile like their romance is long gone Faded through the years Yet time keeps moving on In her heart she knows he no longer sees That Barbie doll shaped woman she use to be She may not be there on the outside the one he use call darling, sweetheart and dear If he'd look past where time has turn him blind This woman in the picture is always near Her heart and her soul is not hard to find The true beauty of the rose is hidden never fades away Waiting for him to remember loving her one day She once again put the picture back in place Wiped away the tears from her older face Memories of long ago only the edges of the pictures Has faded through years and time, a pain of another day arises what now remains in its place a permanent fixture Seeing only through his eyes the beauty of the rose Has wilted; her appeal, and sweet fragrance has long gone ? © Jody Dickey
