FADED PICTURE
© Woodstock Taylor

It's just a faded picture,
I know that now, that's all it is.

Playback from wayback, I can see it now
Let me forget me - I could be it now.
How could I have been so blind
Not to see what lay behind?

Throwback, let's go back and do it all again
Change it, arrange it, make a better then
No matter how the die is cast
You can never change the past

But if I'd known then what I know now
I wouldn't have been there
I wouldn't be here, I'd be somewhere else,
I'd be someone else
If I'd known then what I know now

Borrow tomorrow, we've still got the time:
Use it, don't lose it - don't repeat the crime;
If you wish your life away
You could miss out on today

But if I'd known then what I know now
I wouldn't have been there
I wouldn't be here, I'd be somewhere else,
I'd be someone else
If I'd known then what I know now
It's just a faded picture,
I know that now, that's all it is

Here now, it's clear now what I've got to do:
Live it, forgive it, feel it running through;
I'll never know more than I know
But if I had another go...

But if I'd known then what I know now
I wouldn't have been there
I wouldn't be here, I'd be somewhere else,
I'd be someone else
If I'd known then what I know now
It's just a faded picture,
I know that now, that's all it is