Old Photograph of Rathmines

from City Lights by Padraig O'Connor

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lyrics

It doesn’t seem like long ago

These are the same streets they used to know

I see the pictures in black and white

And I think about what it must have been like

Get out of these clothes and into something old

I was gonna buy, was in my eyes, but I forgot about it…

Reaching out a hand to get back to that place

Where you were just a face and I was sold on all your ways…

These days no one knows me and everyone who phones me

In this damn machine don’t mean a thing

Just makes me scream out really quiet, try it…

(Instrumental chorus)

These buildings used to be so very different then

A photograph is what, it’s not a lot, it’s not a dream, but close that seems…

Once we sat inside that little coffee place

That brand new shiny bar and there were cars that looked brand new

They now look old to you…

(Instrumental chorus)

A line of pretty girls are walking up the steps

While in the bus above the handsome boys wake up and soon see something new…

The dust gets on my shoes as I walk down the road

And over all your old street photos, it spreads across, you wipe it off…

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from City Lights, released November 21, 2018

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Padraig O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Madrid, Spain.

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