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Artist: Boomtown Rats
Canonical path: /boomtown-rats/having-my-picture-taken
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Having My Picture Taken
Read Having My Picture Taken lyrics by Boomtown Rats on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Having My Picture Taken
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My camera,
Sees things my eyes can't see.
I have it focused,
From here to eternity.
Catch the moment, catch the light, catch your breath
Let me freeze your frame.
We'll synchronize machine and brain,
But don't mind me...
I'm having my picture taken.
I can choose
Each day who I want to be.
You can choose
Each day who you want to see,
We'll scan the crowd and pan the rounds of all those
Distant scenes,
Immortalize a slice of time,
Hey don't mind me...
I'm having my picture taken.
Flash: another instant in an instamatic,
Click: another reflex set on automatic,
Snap: another moment of the life dramatic,
You really should have been there it was so fantastic
*written by Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette
*taken from the album "The Fine Art Of Surfacing"
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