Polaroids
Shawn Colvin

S. colvin


Please no more therapy

Mother take care of me

Piece me together with a

Needle and thread

Wrap me in eiderdown

Lace from your wedding gown

Fold me and lay me down

On your bed

Or liken me to a shoe

Blackened and spit-shined through

Kicking back home to you

Smiling back home

Singing back home to you

Laughing back home to you

Dragging back home to you



I was so wary then

The ugly american

Thinner than oxygen

Tough as a whore

I said you can lie to me

I own what's inside of me

And nothing surprises me anymore

But forests in germany

Kids in the tuileries

Broken-down fortresses

In old italy

And claiming his victory

Shrouded in mystery

He went running away with me



Back in our home new york

Walking these streets forlorn

We all in our uniforms

Black and black

Doing that slouch and jive

The artist must survive

We've got all we need we cried

And we don't look back

Thinking we had it made

Poised for the hit parade

Knee deep in accolades

The conceptual pair

But ever the malcontent

He left without incident

Vanished into thin air



Now I am always amazed

Words can fill up a page

Pages fill up the days

Between him and me

But the vows that we never keep

From bedrooms to business-speak

Make me remember how cheap

Words can be

And the letters I wrote you of

Were those of the desperate stuff

Like begging for love in a suicide threat

But I am too young to die

Too old for a lullaby

Too tired for life on the ledge



But I had a dream last night

Of lovers who walked the plank

Out on the edge of time

Amidst ridicule

They laughed as they rocked and reeled

Over the mining fields

Coming to rest on this ship of fools

But he just took polaroids

Of her smile in the light

Of the dawn of the menacing sky

And before they went overbaord

She turned and held up a card

And it said valentine


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Lyrics by Shawn Colvin

  "84,000 Different Delusions"   (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night   84,000 Different Delusions   A Matter of Minutes   Acadian Driftwood   All Fall Down   All The Pretty Li'l Horses   All Through the Night   All Would Envy   American Jerusalem   American Tune   Anne of the Thousand Days   Another Long One   Another Plane Went   Another Plane Went Down   Anywhere You Go   Back to Salome   Baker Street   Between Two Worlds   Bonefields   Bound To You   Change Is On The Way   Christmas Time Is Here   Cinnamon Road   Climb On   Climb On (A Back That's Strong)   Close Your Eyes   Come on, Come On   Cry Like An Angel   Diamond In The Rough   Don't You Think I Feel It Too   Even Here We Are   Evening Is A Little Boy   Evening Is A Little Boy/the Night Will Never Stay   Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic   Failed   Fall Of Rome   Fill Me Up   Fill Me Up [Live]   Get out of This House   Gimme Little Sign   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [#]   Heart Of Saturday Night (Live)   Heart of Saturday Night [Live]   Heaven Is Ten Zillion Light Years Away   Hold On   Hold On To The Good Things   Hold On To The Good Things Album   I Don't Know Why   I Don't Know You   I Don’t Know You   I Used to Be a King   I Want It Back   I'd Say I'm Sorry Now   I'll Be Back   I'll Say I'm Sorry Now   I'll Say I'm Sorry Now (From 'Heartbreakers')   I'm Gone   If I Were Brave   If These Walls Could Speak   In My Life   In the Bleak Midwinter   Kathy's Song   Kill the Messenger   Killing The Blues   Killing The Blues (Live)   Knowing What I Know (live)   Knowing What I Know Now   Let It Slide   Little Road To Bethlehem   Lodi   Love Came Down at Christmas   Love Me Tender   Matter of Minutes   Monopoly   Mr. Levon   Never Saw Blue Like That   New Thing Now   Not a Drop of Rain   Nothin on Me   Nothing Like You   Nothing Like You [Live]   Now the Day Is Over   O Little Town Of Bethlehem   Object Of My Affection   On My Own   One Cool Remove   One Day She'll Love Me   One Small Year   Orion in the Sky   Polaroids [Live]   Private Universe   Ricochet in Time   Ricochet in Time [Live]   Rocking   Roger Wilco   Round Of Blues   Satin Sheets   Satin Sheets (Live)   Satin Sheets [Live]   Seal Lullaby   Secret Gardens   Set the Prairie on Fire   Set The Prarie on Fire   Seven Times The Charm   Shotgun Down The Avalanche   Shotgun Down the Avalanche [Live]   Silent Night   So Good to See You   Someday   Someone Like You   Something To Believe In   Steady On   Stranded   Suicide Alley   Summer Dress   Sunny Came Home   Sunny Came Home [Album Version]   Tenderness on the Block   Tennessee   That Don't Worry Me Now   The Bird   The Chain   The Chain (Legacy Cover)   The Christ Child's Lullaby   The Dead Of The Night   The Facts About Jimmy   The Neon Light of the Saints   The Night Will Never Stay   The Story   There's A Rugged Road   These Four Walls   This Must Be The Place   This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) [Live]   This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)   This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) [Live]   Till I Get it Right   Tougher Than the Rest   Trouble   Tuff Kid   Tumbling Down The Avalanche   Twilight   Twilight (Live)   Twilight [Live]   Up on That Hill   Up On The Hill   Venetian Blue   What I Get Paid For   When the Rainbow Comes   When You Know   Whole New You   Wichita Skyline   Window to the World   Windy Nights   Words   You And The Mona Lisa   You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go   You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Live)   Young at Heart

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