This is a surprisingly nostalgic song, seeing as David often says, “Nostalgia’s always good, but not as good as it used to be!”
Family Photo Album
Credit: words by David & Jenny Heitler-Klevans, music by David Heitler-Klevans, © 2006
Album: Family Album
Lyrics:
Curled up on the couch
Photo album in my lap
Paging through the past.
Funny how some things
seem like yesterday
The time flew by so fast
(Chorus:)
Ooh - my family photo album (2x)
Look, there’s mini-me
Crawling on the floor
Cute, but not much hair.
Drum-set of pots and pans
My dinner on my face
In the bathtub - totally bare
(Chorus)
(Bridge 1:)
In an older album, there’s photos of my mom and dad
Back when they were kids - all the good times they had
There’s pictures of them playing - they seem a lot like me
But look at those old clothes and cars - they did things differently
Picture Day at school
with my hair sticking up
and my awkward grin.
Here’s one of my whole class
That friend that moved away,
others stayed through thick and thin
(Chorus)
That trip our family took
in the summer time
We drove across the land.
Lots of snapshots of the sites
but no-one caught the fights
We had in our mini-van
(Chorus)
(Bridge 2:)
Here’s my parents’ wedding - Grandma looked so young
I only knew her older, and now she’s gone
In the pictures, they’re all dancing, and smiling happily
Did they guess I’d come along - did they imagine me?
Remember our old house
There’s a picture of it here
It seems like yesterday
That toy I used to love,
Things I used to do
I thought I’d always be that way
(Chorus - 2x)
Curled up on the couch
Photo album in my lap
Paging through the past.
Funny how some things
seem like yesterday
The time flew by so fast
(Chorus:)
Ooh - my family photo album (2x)
Look, there’s mini-me
Crawling on the floor
Cute, but not much hair.
Drum-set of pots and pans
My dinner on my face
In the bathtub - totally bare
(Chorus)
(Bridge 1:)
In an older album, there’s photos of my mom and dad
Back when they were kids - all the good times they had
There’s pictures of them playing - they seem a lot like me
But look at those old clothes and cars - they did things differently
Picture Day at school
with my hair sticking up
and my awkward grin.
Here’s one of my whole class
That friend that moved away,
others stayed through thick and thin
(Chorus)
That trip our family took
in the summer time
We drove across the land.
Lots of snapshots of the sites
but no-one caught the fights
We had in our mini-van
(Chorus)
(Bridge 2:)
Here’s my parents’ wedding - Grandma looked so young
I only knew her older, and now she’s gone
In the pictures, they’re all dancing, and smiling happily
Did they guess I’d come along - did they imagine me?
Remember our old house
There’s a picture of it here
It seems like yesterday
That toy I used to love,
Things I used to do
I thought I’d always be that way
(Chorus - 2x)