Take a Picture Lyrics

Was a duck hunt

In late November

I was only nine

But I still remember

The sound of dogs

Whining in the stand

And freezing my ass

Next to my best friend

We were on the road home

After shooting our bags

'Bout halfway back

We stopped for gas

My uncle pointed up

To the diesel price

A buck ninety-nine

And he laughed, and said

'We're gonna wanna

Take a picture of that one

'Cus soon a picture's

All we're gonna have

Sure, today it's a tank of gas

But someday soon

We're gonna want it back

I remember being seventeen

When I could fill my truck

And still pay for drinks

No way to know

What a deal I had

We're gonna wanna

Take a picture of that'

Fast forward a few years

My brother's heading to prom

With the head of cheer

I coulda sworn

He was nine last week

And now he's struggling

Putting on my cufflinks

Lining up in the front yard

She was standing there

With two bare arms

And he was posted up

By the kitchen bar

I went inside,

Grabbed him and said,

'You're gonna wanna

Get a picture of this, bud

Looking back it's

All you'll really miss

I couldn't say

Where most of my friends went

But I can still taste

My first real kiss

All alone on her back porch

Sneaky hands, and sunset orange

I can smell her hair

While it fades to black

I'd give the skin on my back

For a picture of that'

Picture of that

Picture of that

My lock screen

Is a picture of my mom

She's smiling

And throwing two thumbs up

And it's kinda stupid

And she asked me not to use it

But I look at it sometimes

When I'm sure I'm gonna lose it

'Cus it's the stupid little things

I've found to be

Worth the trouble of looking down

To see, you are alive

You are alive

Alive, and able

To be loved