I had dreams, shit, I had so many dreams
The tiny boy in the tiny town in the tiny country
and I can remember, sure I can remember
The yellow Crescent bike I got when I was ten
when there was a ten öre coin
mom was like my chieftain
There's photos on paper in some albums on the shelf
and I had to sit down, the short ones always had to sit down
every school photo, sat with dirty knees
But it's been, do you remember all that's been
If the emotions are still here it was probably legendary
The image's a bit blurry, the focus was shaky
We can immortalize this more than photographically
This is life, sure
We want to see what's on the inside
But if I were Annie Leibovitz
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us
And you took a picture but thought I was too short
but after we'd talked it didn't matter anymore
I had the camera in my pocket, my future ahead
with a thousand self-portraits that didn't show where I wanted to go
When you look back, all you see if happiness
We never took the time to photograph the sorrows along the way
We can develop pictures, and develop the memory
but no Hasselblad in the world can capture the whole width
You saw me, you saw me for real
We got past the surface, because love is clever
You made me real, before it was all ficticious
Things break in two so you should be careful
We can look at a thousand pictures without seeing each other
A photo stops time but life rarely wants to stop
I thought I looked fat, you thought you turned out ugly but
the real picture is in your head, you know this is
This is life, sure
We want to see what's on the inside
But if I were Annie Leibovitz
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us
What if a tiny piece disappears every time we take a picture
What if our gigabytes can't hold the whole memory
so we put some filter on all of our photos
thought nothing of what happened looked like it turned out in the pictures
So we just keep taking many shots
nothing's allowed to disappear
let the camera work hard
Before we disappear, we'll capture ourselves
This is life, sure
We want to see what's on the inside
But if I were Annie Leibovitz
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us
maybe I could, maybe I could
maybe I'll
capture us.