The Portrait-Amanda McBroom

[ti:The Portrait] [ar:Amanda McBroom] [al:Growing up in Hollywood Town] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Portrait (肖像) - Amanda McBroom [00:23.69]There's a picture in a silver frame [00:28.81] [00:30.02]Hanging dusty on my wall [00:34.18] [00:35.46]And two people with their eyes [00:39.77]The same holding daisies I recall [00:46.27] [00:47.28]And the baby in the sailor dress [00:51.99] [00:52.86]And the pigtails that was me [00:57.90] [00:59.01]And the other was my mother [01:03.60] [01:04.72]On our Easter by the sea [01:09.89] [01:11.12]People tell me that I'm just like her [01:15.75] [01:16.67]And I wonder what they see [01:20.32] [01:21.31]She was lady lace and cameo [01:25.98] [01:27.02]Not the gypsy that is me [01:31.17] [01:31.90]She spent her evenings making poetry [01:37.27]I spend my nights making time [01:41.98] [01:43.29]And I wonder [01:44.64] [01:45.95]Am I living partly her dreams [01:49.89] [01:51.10]Partly mine [01:52.31] [01:54.34]What would she think of the too many men [01:57.91] [01:58.71]The lies I get lost in again and again [02:02.46] [02:03.52]The tears in the morning [02:05.17]The booze and the blues in the night [02:07.73] [02:14.55]It's been years now since I've seen her face [02:18.74] [02:19.98]Heard her footsteps on stair the [02:23.69] [02:24.92]But just lately in my dreams at night [02:29.13] [02:29.90]I will call her and she's there [02:34.10] [02:34.85]Looking pretty like she used to [02:38.82] [02:39.60]Before time and tears tore her apart [02:43.82] [02:45.17]And she tells me that she loves me [02:48.90] [02:50.11]Then she leaves me in the dark [02:53.89] [02:55.56]Mama don't leave me [02:57.23] [02:57.85]Mama don't go [02:59.16] [03:00.25]You know the answers to all I don't know [03:03.69] [03:04.61]My dreams come up empty [03:06.46]And my hearts lying dead on the floor [03:09.03] [03:13.72]Mama don't leave me [03:15.64]Mama please stay [03:17.33] [03:18.13]Mama I need you to show me the way [03:21.70] [03:22.71]I'm lost and I'm lonely and [03:24.61]I can't find my way anymore [03:28.15] [03:32.12]Mama mama mama