Name: There Was A Time
Duration: P00H04M43S
Description: This is a deeply personal song about my father. I wrote this in May 2022 after we put him in a nursing home and my sisters and I cleaned out his apartment and looked through old pictures. Yes, a sad song but one that needed to be written.

There Was A Time

by Alison Reynolds

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This is a deeply personal song about my father. I wrote this in May 2022 after we put him in a nursing home and my sisters and I cleaned out his apartment and looked through old pictures. Yes, a sad song but one that needed to be written.

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There was a time
When we knew how to laugh
We were grinning and smiling
In all those old photographs
Many good times
Saved in a picture book
Now just a memory
A snapshot somebody took

There was a time
When we all were together
Gazing at pictures
Helps me remember
Those times of joy
Now are ghosts in the night
Oh how I long for
Those times
That once felt so right

Now everything's changed
You made that choice so long ago
My eyes fill with tears
As I picture you
Cold and alone

There was a time
Take me back once again
To laugh and to smile
Like we did way back then
My memories haunt me
Laughter has gone from my heart
You pushed us away
Now you stand
Alone in the dark

Everything's changed
You made that choice so long ago
My eyes fill with tears
As I picture you
Cold and alone

There was a time

There was a time

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released April 26, 2023

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Alison Reynolds Tehachapi, California

A go-it-alone singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, home recording enthusiast. Original songs range from up-beat, feel good rock and blues (think Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt) to introspective folk style reflections of life, think Joni Mitchel, James Taylor). The combination of guitar (acoustic or electric) and cello (acoustic and/or electric) make for some unique arrangements! ... more

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