I ain't got much to go on Just a box of photographs But every picture tells us story But every story has two halves I keep on separate And before and after past And somewhere in the middle is where mama lost her smile Somewhere in the summer Back in 1982 Daddy took a job in town And we all had a moon I feel like there's one missing I felt it for a while One is gonna tell me how mama lost her smile But you don't take pictures of the bad times We only want to remember All the sunshine You don't live in pictures This is real life And there above is different As black and white I don't know why it matters I just know it does It's not like you to change things To find out what it was She would never tell us About just things her stopped But I wish I knew the reason why mama lost her smile But you don't take pictures of the bad times We only want to remember All the sunshine You don't live in pictures This is real life And there above is different As black and white We are all a little older We are all a little warned We are all a little faded We are all a little torn But you don't take pictures of the bad times We only want to remember All the sunshine We don't live in pictures This is real life And there above is different As black and white I ain't got much to go on Just a box of photographs But every picture tells us story And every story has two halves