The Portrait-Jamie DeRoy

[ti:The Portrait] [ar:Jamie DeRoy] [al:The Child In Me: Songs That Take You Back To Your Childhood, Vol. 4 - Family] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Portrait (肖像) - Jamie DeRoy [00:19.23]There's a picture in a silver frame [00:24.21]Hanging dusty on my wall [00:27.88] [00:28.62]And two people with their eyes [00:32.49]The same holding daisies i recall [00:37.39] [00:38.50]And the baby in the sailor dress [00:42.28] [00:43.25]And the pigtails that was me [00:46.64] [00:48.06]And the other was my mother [00:52.19] [00:53.03]On our easter by the sea [00:57.65] [01:00.43]People tell me that i'm just like her [01:04.57] [01:05.22]And i wonder what they see [01:09.16] [01:09.74]She was lady lace and cameo [01:14.54] [01:15.19]Not the gypsy that is me [01:18.42] [01:19.26]She spent her evenings making poetry [01:24.01] [01:24.61]I spend my nights making time [01:28.46] [01:29.85]And i wonder [01:31.25] [01:32.07]Am i living partly her dreams [01:36.78]Partly mine [01:38.76] [01:42.39]What would she think of the too many men [01:46.76]The lies i get lost in again and again [01:51.42]The tears in the morning [01:52.97]The booze and the blues in the night [01:59.02] [02:04.08]It's been years now since i've seen her face [02:08.63] [02:09.35]Heard her footsteps on stairthe [02:13.39] [02:13.92]But just lately in my dreams at night [02:18.16] [02:18.88]I will call her and she's there [02:23.13]Looking pretty like she used to [02:27.29] [02:27.92]Before time and tears tore her apart [02:32.10] [02:32.89]And she tells me that she loves me [02:36.75] [02:37.88]Then she leaves me in the dark [02:42.43] [02:45.44]Mama don't leave me [02:47.66]Mama don't go [02:49.72]You have the answers to all i don't know [02:54.38]My dreams come up empty [02:56.09]And my hearts lying dead on the floor [03:00.82] [03:02.90]Mama don't leave me [03:04.98]Mama please stay [03:07.23]Mama i need you to show me the way [03:11.72]I'm lost and i'm lonely and [03:13.68]I can't find my way anymore [03:19.08] [03:20.40]Mama mama