I want to be that girl in the photograph The one where happiness is etched on her face And her eyes are overflowing with joy The one where her smile shows her passion And how she’s so full of confidence The one where her expression shows her courage And how she uses it to set her ambitions high The one where she’s so comfortable being who she is And so at ease with doing what she loves The one where there’s no sign of fear Nor even a little hint of doubt The one where trust comes naturally And a fault isn’t to be found
But sometime between then and now Life threw what it could at her And her confidence wavered Her courage was destroyed Her ambitions thrown away Her eyes left lifeless Her smile was forced And any love, trust or happiness was gone And she was no longer the girl in the photograph, The one where she was caught in the middle of a laugh
Then sometime a little after now A realization hit her quite hard The girl in the photograph came to see That it wasn’t life that made her feel empty She opened her eyes and was surprised at what she saw It was her who’d taken herself down, with a mighty hard blow And she was the reason she suffered such pain So sick of it she became That she stood up and braced herself And made a decision that would change her life She decided: She was going to be the girl in the photograph again.