Handheld Memory

By Garlicito

On Another Fiction

Released on September 1, 2023

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[ Verse 1 ]

Whatcha say?

Lets go and waste another day

I'd love to stay a second more

I adore this

Place that I’d not seen before

And I know

The day is gonna fly so far away

I think I’d better hit record

Another memory to store


[ Bridge ]

Flickers of light turn to glass in our names

Mirrors of time that remain


[ Chorus 1 ]

Look through

And see the world I save

On the screen

I try to hold on to, momentary dreams

I can’t leave behind the times, we knew

And the lens doesn’t close its eyes the way I do


[ Verse 2 ]

Whatcha know?

We’re having fun I told you so

You’d find it easy to believe

Once you see

These moments caught in 4 by 3

But you say, that I’d better stick around than hit replay

Cause staring at a flat display just ain't the same as

When you see the view that’s out of frame

[ Instrumental ]


[ Bridge ]

The worlds that I view when we’re worlds far apart

When I find myself reaching for long bygone friends

Are the ones that I keep on my memory card

Captured each time through the camera lens

So how could I not let myself capture these

Minutes of moments and memories of thee

Watching until the lens shattered and I couldn’t see


[ Chorus 2 ]

Look through

And see the world I saved

On the screen

I tried to hold on to

Momentary dreams

I couldn’t leave behind the times

We knew

But they leave all the same from a different point of view


[ Outro ]

I tried, but still it didn’t go, as planned

How did I survive

When it fell out of my hands?

You couldn’t catch it on its way

To the ground

But the scenes that I found, that I once reminisced

Were places out of view I somehow missed