Today I Took Your Picture Down

Today I took your picture down And carried it away It's meaning long forgotten now Forgotten let it stay His welcome worn to weariness His thousand words all said A keepsake keeps a love alive But shrines a form of death 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 converstion 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 Daring me to try and stare them down Instrumental Today I took your picture down The coolly painted lips that spoke without a sound The eyes that followed me around Daring me to try to 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