"I Get The Picture" lyrics - KEITH WHITLEY

KEITH WHITLEY
"I Get The Picture"
(Don Cook / Fred Koller)

The moving van is waitin' for the rain to stop
Your agent put a sign up in the yard
I wondered, was there anything that you'd forgot
I guess that goodbye's got to be this hard

One last look around the rooms that we shared
I knew I couldn't stay here by myself
I saw a box and wondered why you'd left it out
Right there on the bedroom closet shelf

Faded yellow photos of a boy and girl
Smiling in the blazing Texas sun
It must have been the year before your daddy died
He tried to warn me then this day would come

I get the picture
Though the love has gone away
I get the picture
Though your memory will fade
I get the picture

Wasn't that the guy you told me you forgot
Oh, what's his name who never made you laugh
But I never made you smile the way you're smilin' here
By his side in this faded photograph

Last night when I met you at your lawyer's house
I wondered 'bout the guy who dropped you off
I guess I probably never placed his smiling face
If you hadn't left behind this box

I get the picture
Though the love has gone away
I get the picture
Though your memory will fade
I get the picture

I get the picture