Snap A Picture

©2025 J Oscar Bittinger

Take a traveling selfie
By a pub or shrine 
Show that you'd been there
Raise a glass of wine
Just before the high-tide
Before the forest fire
When rocks of revolution flew
Over fences of barbed wire (Did you..)

CHORUS
SNAP A PICTURE
Lasts longer they say
Snap a picture
The clock stopped on a face
In the fading light
Of a memory
Does it look the way
You remembered it to be
Before everything changed

It was a terrible accident 
A tragedy 
Could have been prevented 
Had things gone differently
Surveillance cameras captured
What couldn't be controlled 
The nation watched in shock
As news crew cameras rolled

SNAP A PICTURE
Lasts longer they say
Snap a picture
The clock stopped on a face
In the fading light
Of a memory
Does it look the way
You remembered it to be
Before everything changed

BRIDGE
Start with the hard part
Where the sweet things turn tart
Those bland, candy conversation hearts
Don’t say what you want them to
Can’t convey all you want them to

The past sounds like static
The future hasn't clicked
Today is a livestream
In dreams remixed
We want picture perfect moments
Causes what happens feels so random
We filter, edit, and arrange
To look as if we planned it (And we..)
CHORUS 

SNAP A PICTURE
Lasts longer they say
Snap a picture
The clock stopped on a face
In the fading light
Of a memory
Does it look the way
You remembered it to be
Before everything changed

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