The Portrait-The Damned

[00:00.01]Amanda Mcbroom-the Portrait [00:05.00] [00:11.10]There's a picture in a silver frame hanging dusty on my wall. [00:22.25]And two people with their eyes the same holding daisies, I recall. [00:32.80]And the baby in the sailor dress and the pigtails - that was me. [00:42.93]And the other was my mother on our Easter by the sea. [00:54.87]People tell me that I'm just like her and I wonder what they see. [01:05.82]She was lady, lace and cameo, not the gypsy, that is me. [01:15.72]She spent her evenings making poetry, I spend my nights making time. [01:25.01]And I wonder, am I living partly her dreams, partly mine. [01:33.92]What would she think of the too many men [01:39.56]The lies I get lost in, again and again [01:44.28]The tears in the morning, the booze and the blues in the night. [01:52.22] [01:57.66]It's been years now since I've seen her face, heard her footsteps on the stair, [02:09.39]but just lately in my dreams at night, [02:14.73]I will call her and she's there [02:19.32]looking pretty like she used to before time and tears tore her apart.And she tells me that she loves me then she leaves me in the dark. [02:38.79]Mama don't leave me, Mama don't go. [02:43.96]You know the answers to all I don't know. [02:48.29]My dreams come up empty and my hearts lying dead on the floor. [02:56.68]Mama don't leave me, Mama please stay. [03:00.38]Mama I need you to show me the way. [03:04.26]I'm lost and I'm lonely and I can't find my way anymore. [03:16.17]Mama -- Mama