The Portrait-Amanda McBroom

[ti:The Portrait] [ar:Amanda McBroom] [al:Portraits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Portrait - Amanda McBroom [00:11.46]There's a picture in a silver frame [00:17.59]Hanging dusty on my wall. [00:22.59]And two people with their eyes [00:28.15]The same holding daisies, I recall. [00:33.21]And the baby in the sailor dress [00:37.90]And the pigtails - that was me. [00:43.24]And the other was my mother [00:49.18]On our Easter by the sea. [00:55.13]People tell me that I'm just like her [01:01.02]And I wonder what they see. [01:06.20]She was lady, lace and cameo, [01:10.60]Not the gypsy, that is me. [01:16.04]She spent her evenings making poetry, [01:20.47]I spend my nights making time. [01:23.97]And I wonder, [01:26.54]Am I living partly her dreams, [01:30.93]Partly mine. [01:35.24]What would she think of the too many men [01:39.74]The lies I get lost in, again and again [01:44.67]The tears in the morning, [01:47.41]The booze and the blues in the night. [01:51.10] [01:59.66]It's been years now since I've seen her face, [02:07.04]Heard her footsteps on the stair, [02:10.12]But just lately in my dreams at night, [02:14.55]I will call her and she's there [02:19.74]Looking pretty like she used to [02:23.74]Before time and tears tore her apart. [02:28.33]And she tells me that she loves me [02:32.58]Then she leaves me in the dark. [02:39.54]Mama don't leave me, [02:42.04]Mama don't go. [02:44.04]You know the answers to all I don't know. [02:48.24]My dreams come up empty [02:50.25]And my hearts lying dead on the floor. [02:54.93] [02:56.87]Mama don't leave me, [02:58.49]Mama please stay. [03:00.43]Mama I need you to show me the way. [03:04.18]I'm lost and I'm lonely and [03:07.63]I can't find my way anymore. [03:14.95] [03:17.45]Mama -- Mama