2 Magnetic East - Time Altered Photograph Lyrics

You live your life like you're immortal
But you haven't thought this through
If you were gonna die tomorrow
You'd figure out what you should do

And the time goes on forever
So you waste just a little more
And you find all of a sudden
That you're headed for the door

Can you feel the time bomb ticking
Can you feel the sand slipping out
Does your memory hold all the gold
And your future all the doubts

Oh but it takes forever
Living like that to see
Before you figure out that you haven't
Got forever to be somebody
Somebody

You're a time altered photograph
I love the way you're painted
A time altered photograph
I love the way you've faded
The way you catch the light
Well somehow it's just right for me

Fix your eyes on the sky
We haven't changed all that much inside
Strip away the damage time has wrought
And we're still fine

But it takes forever
Living like fantasy
Before you figure out that you haven't
Got forever to be somebody

You're a time altered photograph
I love the way you've faded

But it takes forever
Living like that to see
Oh before you figure out that you haven't
Got forever to be somebody
Somebody