Benmont Tench - Today I Took Your Picture Down lyrics

Today I took your picture down And carried it away Its meaning long forgotten now Forgotten let it stay Its welcome worn to wariness Its thousand words all said A keepsake keeps a love alive But shrines are for the dead 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 conversation 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 Darin me to try and 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