Photobooth
Chrissy & Hawley Chrissy & Hawley (The Nite Owl Diner, 2016)
I saw you and it felt like love
Across the room in a darkened club
I wanted to get you alone
But I wasn’t ready to go home
I scanned the room and I found a little corner
For just me and you
I pulled the curtain and I pulled your body closer
In the photobooth
In a flash my whole world was changed
I’m not the type who usually does such things
Before I had a chance together your name
Our photos came out and you walked away
People say, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer”
I wish those words were true
I wish that I could forget the time I fell in love
In a photobooth
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Two weeks later and I still feel blue
I keep hoping I'll bump into you
I should make myself forget that night
Instead I hold an empty hope inside
Feelings fade, it's like they never happened
Unless you have some proof
So I cling to a little strip of photos
From a photobooth
A picture’s worth a thousand words
But what are four little photos worth?
Is it worth all this pain
To hold a memory from yesterday.
People say, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer”
I wish that it were true
I wish that I could forget the time I fell in love
In a photobooth
Across the room in a darkened club
I wanted to get you alone
But I wasn’t ready to go home
I scanned the room and I found a little corner
For just me and you
I pulled the curtain and I pulled your body closer
In the photobooth
In a flash my whole world was changed
I’m not the type who usually does such things
Before I had a chance together your name
Our photos came out and you walked away
People say, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer”
I wish those words were true
I wish that I could forget the time I fell in love
In a photobooth
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Take a picture, it’ll last longer
Two weeks later and I still feel blue
I keep hoping I'll bump into you
I should make myself forget that night
Instead I hold an empty hope inside
Feelings fade, it's like they never happened
Unless you have some proof
So I cling to a little strip of photos
From a photobooth
A picture’s worth a thousand words
But what are four little photos worth?
Is it worth all this pain
To hold a memory from yesterday.
People say, “Take a picture, it’ll last longer”
I wish that it were true
I wish that I could forget the time I fell in love
In a photobooth
This single is from Chrissy & Hawley's eponymous LP, which also features a photobooth photo on the obverse.
Contributed by Christian Bonifas
