diamond-blacks

Take a good look at mama
When I was just a child
Holding me aloft
Looking so proud
The pictures they tell a story
Of a time long ago
Before innocence got lost
Many moons ago.

Take a good look at papa
Working so hard
Always in his work clothes
Dirty hands and all
The pictures they tell a story
Of a time long ago
Before innocence got lost
Many moons ago.

Life ain't always pretty
Like those early photos show
Coz papa got up and left her
For a woman that he know
Mamas heart was broken
And Nothing was ever the same
Fragile young minds
There futures gonna change.

Just got out of prison
With nothing to my name
Sitting in this halfway house
Contemplating my next move
Oh how I wish I could step
Into the photo frame
When mama was lifting me
And calling out my name.

Take a good look at mama
When I was just a child
Holding me aloft
Looking so proud
The pictures they tell a story
Of a time long ago
Before innocence got lost
Many moons ago..

Your lemonade it pours like wine to me.
When it's cold and dark outside you make me see.
Your rolling thunder to me.
Just one look and you look right through me.
You light up everything that I ever dreamed about.

Your cold as ice but warmer than the sun to me.
Hold me in your arms and I'm in ecstasy.
Your rolling thunder to me.
Just one look and you can look right through me.
You light up everything that I ever dreamed about.

No matter where I wander.
No matter what I see.
You will always be a part of me.
You shone like the sun in winter.
You comfort me from the pain.
Yours was the love,the beginning, the end..

Your lemonade it pours like wine to me.
When it's cold and dark outside you make me see.
Your rolling thunder to me.

You light up everything that I've ever dreamed about..