Story Behind The Song

I started humming the melody, I sang the first line 'Sometimes I wonder when I see you in photographs' and the song was written in 2 days.

Song Description

The importance of art to life. How life is full of impressions, half remembered. How art transcends the simple day-to-day, and reminds us that the world is 'much more than it seems'.

Lyrics

Sometimes I wonder when I see you in photographs
What you were doing for the rest of the day
Before and after you were caught in the camera
The rest is history I heard someone say

It isn't easy to commit things to memory
There's only so much that the mind can contain
Do you remember every word that you said to me?
In the end it's just impressions that remain

So little time and so much to be done
See how the watercolors merge as they run

So we awaken to a world full of photographs
Profile pictures tell the world who you are
Select an image and a well-chosen word or two
You know attention spans are not what they were

And yet there is much within this life that is intangible
Filled with nuance hard to convey
This is the journey of the brush to the canvas
This is the restless heart that yearns night and day

So much to say and a lifetime to learn
Look at the colors what can you discern?

I had a friend who spent his life taking photographs
He walked the streets looking for shadows and light
The town I lived in through the eyes of an artist
Revealed itself as an extraordinary sight

And all these visions we will take for our history
For all the poets and the dreamers of dreams
Come take my hand and let us stand on the balcony
And view a world that is much more than it seems