Close Up (Live at Real World Studios, Bath, 2023)

CLOSE UP

I've been taking photographs ever since I was a kid

It's all I ever wanted to do or ever did

To document the world around me, show them who we are

These days my eyes are failing me and I can't see that far

Close up, it's the only way I see

My dad still has our house keys though the bricks are all long gone

Livin' under canvas my brothers sisters and my mom

We had wait for 4 years til we got the call

We went to the embassy I guess my blindness set us free

Close up, it's the only way I see

Close up like we've always been

What about the cousins we have left behind

Standing like statues in my mind

And so we came to Canada with its bicycles and playgrounds

Settled in Regina a city built on bones and dreams

So if I can't find my way when I cant see the streets signs

Tonight we'll have our first meal and you'll sit beside me

Close up, it's the only way I see

Close up like we've always been