Name: Her Photographs
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Channel: Jay Neilson
Description: In a way this song is about me and a lot of the people I know who love photography.

Her Photographs

Jay Neilson

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In a way this song is about me and a lot of the people I know who love photography.

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Jay Neilson

catchy rock??? Listen for yourself.

Welcome, there isn't much to say that would make you understand what I do better than just letting you know who I am, which is Jay. I'm the kind of guy who would rather stay inside and write then go outside and play, forever. I'm the kind of guy who falls in love with almost everything, finds it hard to capture it all in a song so has to keep on going. I may be wrong but for me, a good songwriter can't be one that sits back and smells the coffee and relaxes, a real songwriter is basically (in a nice way) tormented by creation, and that is me.

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Rock General

Charts

Peak #1,582

Peak in subgenre #176

Author

Jay Neilson

Rights

Socan/Creative Slave Publishing

Uploaded

April 18, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 1:59

Story behind the song

This song goes out to a friend of mine, it's not ABOUT her life mind you. I just think people with cameras are interesting people. Capturing life to store it away in a frame. To escape to that place again. I love this idea and hope I did it justice. btw, this is a terrible terrible demo in my books...one take on everything. But, it's done.

Lyrics

like every morning before
she grabs her camera and smiles as she shuts the door
she doesn't feel she belongs
    but in her pictures nothing seems to be so wrong

so she'll take what she gets
when she opens her lens
she can translate darkness into light
negatives reversed save every sight

So she aims and shoots again

and so it goes
she loves her dreams too much to let go
with every frame, she's holding on (and on and on)
fall to the floor and then she's gone 
she hides inside her photographs

retrace it all from the start
remembered afternoons of tears and of broken hearts
don't think she'll ever forget
the lying and the romance and spent cigarettes

she's rewinding the past
finding peace at long last
taking back the moments that she's lost
breathing freedom in at any cost

So she aims and shoots again

And so it goes
she lives her life in super slow-mo
with every frame, she's holding on (and on and on)
fall to the floor and then she's gone 
she hides inside her photographs

they may not understand
the world she holds in her hands
5x7 fantasy
places she's always dreamed to be

and so it goes
she loves her dreams too much to let go
with every frame, she's holding on (and on and on)
fall to the floor and then she's gone 
she hides inside her photographs

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