The Last Photograph

Verse 1

Found a camera in a box upstairs

Cracked little screen and a strand of your hair

Pictures from a summer I forgot

Cheap sunglasses and a parking lot

You were laughing with your eyes shut tight

I held two fingers up half-alive

Somebody in the background wearing blue

Funny how I can't remember you

Pre-Chorus

We thought the days were ours to waste

Like nothing good could ever change

We snapped a hundred skies in a row

Never asked how fast the years could go

Chorus

We took a million pictures trying to make the moment stay

Like a photograph could hold the world from turning anyway

All those crooked smiles those blurry nights

Those cheap old dreams beneath the porch light

Now the faces fade and the names get lost

Somewhere between who we were and what it cost

We couldn't make forever no matter what we knew

But I've got proof we were here

And proof I once knew you

Drop

Proof I once knew you

Proof I once knew you

Verse 2

There's a shot from October in a parking garage

You in my old hoodie I was acting tough

A birthday cake with candles burning low

And a note on the back that says don't let me go

By December you were missing from the frame

Just an empty seat and a window full of rain

Don't remember fighting don't remember why

A thousand little endings we never recognized

Pre-Chorus

We thought growing up meant getting somewhere

New keys new jobs new clothes to wear

We never knew that leaving could be slow

Or how you lose somebody you still think you know

Chorus

We took a million pictures trying to make the moment stay

Like a photograph could hold the world from turning anyway

All those crooked smiles those blurry nights

Those cheap old dreams beneath the porch light

Now the faces fade and the names get lost

Somewhere between who we were and what it cost

We couldn't make forever no matter what we knew

But I've got proof we were here

And proof I once knew you

Drop

Proof I once knew you

Proof I once knew you

Bridge

Hey kid with the camera

You don't have to take them all

Some things are worth remembering

Even when you lose them all

That girl beside you laughing

You won't know her all your life

That boy who swore he'd never leave

He might not say goodbye

And one day you'll be older

With these pictures in a drawer

Wondering how the world kept spinning

When you couldn't turn it back before

But you don't have to save it

You don't have to make it last

You can love a thing completely

Without keeping it in the past

Final Chorus

We took a million pictures trying to make the moment stay

But the world kept turning and we all went our separate ways

All those crooked smiles those blurry nights

We were young enough to think we'd always have the time

Now the faces fade but I remember us

The busted shoes the stupid jokes the little things we loved

We couldn't make forever but maybe that's okay

Some things don't have to stay to never fade away

Outro

Found a camera in a box upstairs

Still a little dust still a little of us there

I put it back but I kept one photograph

The last one where we both were looking back

No big goodbye no grand last scene

Just two young fools at seventeen

We didn't know how fast the years would move

But we were here

Yeah we were here

And once

We knew