How cruel are the years that take our youth......
Story behind the song
Inspired by photographs of Mary Travers ,those showing her beautiful youth and those of her battling through illness in later life
Lyrics
The Photograph © Sue Bargh 21 3 09
How cruel are the years that take our youth
Crueller still is the photographic truth
There we are suspended in time
With out a wrinkle or yet a line
In the photograph world you`re still just a girl
And look there we are in a romantic whirl
How strange we are in old fashioned clothes
Preserved in those days before we grew old
How cruel the gentle summer rain
That unintentionally roses pale
Scattered round the arbour swing
Like graveyard angels broken wings
How cruel the love that never ends
Forever recalling the joy and pain it sends
For I will love you until I die
And the proof within that photograph lies
Sue, I can tell that alot of thought went into the lyrics of your song and it came out beautiful. Like your voice,, angelic returns. Your sweetness comes thru' and touches the heart within. You're a butterfly floating on the breeze with much to offer the world. Your heart has been exposed and your message,, touching. Your Friend, BOB