Undeveloped Film
Frank Turner
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G Sorting through my things the other day I found an old film camera that IC G thought I'd thrown away But there it was covered in dust I checked it and the film insideC G still had a few pictures left So I just snapped it off and then I found a place on the high streetC G that could still develop them I dropped them off and clean forgot, It wasn't until this morning that IC Em picked the pictures upAm And there before my eyes in vivid colourC G Em Pictures of her stood smiling bold on the edge of a cliff by the seaAm On the south coast somewhere,C G Wind in her hair, wrapped againstC the coldG There were many other pictures in the set,Continues after the adC Most of them were taken in theG first months after we met When we were lovers like happy drunks Stumbling for each other with eachC G step, each breath in our lungs Pictures of nights from soho bars A weekend in the country when weC G borrowed my sister's car, Her naked, serene on a hotel bedC Smiling at the camera, her beautyEm like a word unsaid And there before my eyes on theAm glossy paperC G Em Quiet whispers of something I had lost or put asideAm For the longest timeC G The hope that I might find someC kind of peaceEm D Oh oh oh where did it go go goEm Ab7 I used to know exactly where I kept itEm D There right there under the stairs oh pleaseEm Darling I swear swear swear that'sAb7 where I left itEm D Secret little things that you keep locked awayEm In a small wooden box that youAb7 Em barely even mention to yourselfD It's not exactly hope, nothingEm quite as simple as youthAb7 Perhaps it's just a way of lookingC past the truthD We're all fading awayAb7 The truth I can see in the veryEm C last frame of that long lost roll of filmD A picture of me, a young manAb7 holding a camera up to a mirrorEm And there before my eyes in that oldAm reflectionC G A declaration bold: We won't stayEm gold All that's left of her and the restAm C Is a small locked box ofG C G undeveloped film and photographs