the picture is a polaroid I took of a 20-year-old first love (her first too, I was 21) in her college apartment bedroom, just before the first and only time we made love. The look in her eyes, was how I too was feeling.

Certainly have these kind of pictures with the same bittersweet memories attached, Doug.  Great song, my friend - universal and personal all at the same time...

We all have stacks of memories…family, friends, and such Life’s mysteries, broken dreams, first times we made love Only just a picture, …only just a picture

Such a sweet unforced charm to this, Doug...much enjoyed!

Only just a picture...but sometimes...sometimes I go back...love that line! Mighty fine work, Doug!

I love how you take the single notion, the simple realization that conflicts image with reality. Very authentic how you’re stuck on it here and the picture carries you away. Expressed so truly. Durge

You are a great singer songwriter‼️ The song is sweet and voice is honest❣️

nice song Doug --full of the haunt that just keeps growing long after we stop doing so

Lovely honest song and love the delivery 👏👍

WE ALL HAVE A STACK OF MEMORIES,....
FAMILY, FRIENDS and LOVES ...
Only just a picture,...only just a song(SOMETIMES ,...WE GO BACK) ... July 13, 2022

Only just a picture like some long forgotten dream  
Somehow… still a memory …”of something…used to be” 
Daddy saved this moment … me there on your lap …just a lad 
Only just a picture … but sometimes …sometimes I go back 

Mom, you had so much ahead, and I had all of mine 
Didn’t know, back then how much,… you’d mean, in my life 
That picture’s worn and torn, from all the times, I tried in vain, to return 
Only just a picture … but sometimes …I’m right there… with her 

They say you can’t go back…then how’d I get to here?
Time and place, collide again, as we travel through the years 
Daddy took that picture …like some long-forgotten song 
They say you can’t go home again…maybe they’re all “wrong” 
Only just a picture … but somehow …sometimes I go back 

We all have stacks of memories…family, friends, and such 
Life’s mysteries, broken dreams, first times we made love 
Only a picture, …only just a picture 

First time that I saw that girl, took a picture in my mind  
Promised her I’d write a song, the moment I had time 
Her hair a flowing rhyme,…her eyes they captured mine, and all of that 
It’s only just a memory … but sometimes …sometimes I go back 

They say you can’t go back again, most times that seems right 
It’s raining now in Frisco… Sierra drowns in dry 
I still remember Jackson Hole, you on your downhill run 
Me just waiting by the fire, writing one more song, about my love 
They say you can’t go back but those words, remember you so much 

They say you can’t go back again…then how’d I get to here?
Time and place, collide again, as we travel through the years 
Only, just a picture …only just a song 
They say you can’t go back again…maybe they’re all “wrong”  
Only just a picture … but sometimes …sometimes I go back (repeat)

https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/once-upon-a-time-doug-michael-roossien
https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/forgotten-dreams
https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/14-remember-wont-let-me-say
https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/sttthasax-1-31
https://soundcloud.com/doug-roossien/never-said-goodbye-fast-train
as the songs say ... we never forget a first love ...

ONLY JUST A PICTURE (but sometimes, I go back)

YOUTUBE VIDEO......"FIELDS OF QUIET SOIL"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyYHjxPPBgc 
YOUTUBE VIDEO(NEW) ... "POCKETFUL OF LIES "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9vAZQgmN4

SOMEDAY THE WEIGHT OF THIS YEAR ON MY LIFE WILL BE AN ALBUM FULL OF PAIN,... BUT, RIGHT NOW IT SEEMS LIKE I'M CENTRALLY LOCATED IN HELL

1987 WENT TO Nashville for a “short week” Music row to make the big time … wow … nobody listens in lawsuit land in those days. 1988 WENT TO NASHVILLE for 3 days (surely, I would crack this puzzle and become famous …) so many on benches in front of churches. Frustrated, didn’t sing publicly again basically for 25 years. (after all, where would a singer/song writer, make a name for himself in Karaoke land).
2010 discovered open mics (new world begins). WRITING SINCE …a lot! Had someone to produce me in limited acoustic style for a couple years…I think a few were damn good “Fields of Quiet Soil”. Had a lot of offers to write lyrics and/or sing for a lot of other artists here. (but no recording capability …let alone a decent computer for my own. TODAY, THINGS CHANGE …I’m here to make an impact (got 4 new ones under my belt recently) …plus some old ones you will not be disappointed listening to. Welcome old music fans and artists., potential serious collabs.
I’m locked and loaded this time!
FB Doug Roossien

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