Josh Rister - Empty Picture Frames/On the Hillside

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(Verse 1)
The fire burns so bright
As daylight fades to night
Whippoorwills and frog croaks
Fill the air
Memories gone bye
Past the moon they fly
All I do is stoke the flames
And stare

(Chorus)
I know the memories won’t fade
Like tattoos on my mind, there they’ll stay
So I sit and I cry, over these ashes tonight
Next to these empty picture frames

(Verse 2)
Smoke fills trees
A bitter cloud finds me
The taste of ash, it fills my
Weeping lungs
I cough, then wipе a tear
At all those long gone yеars
As I burn the words
To a song I once sung
(Chorus)
I know the memories won’t fade
Like tattoos on my mind, there they’ll stay
So I sit and I cry, over these ashes tonight
Next to these empty picture frames

(Bridge)
Yeah, I've written some real stinkers. Like that one song, about a deer?

(Verse)
What's that that I spy over there on the hillside?
A pretty young doe, about to bed down

Release Date: March 01, 2024

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for the night\r\nThe fire's dying down, but the memories burn bright\r\nIn the glow of the embers, I see her in my mind\r\n(Chorus)\r\nI know the memories won’t fade\r\nLike tattoos on my mind, there they’ll stay\r\nSo I sit and I cry, over these ashes tonight\r\nNext to these empty picture frames\r\n\r\n(Outro)\r\nAs the night grows colder, and the stars begin to shine\r\nI know that she's out there, on the hillside\r\nBut all I have left are these empty picture frames\r\nAnd the memories of a love that once was mine.

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