
Picture, Picture
Recorded January 2005
Release history
- Little By Little... (2005)
- Cream and Bastards Rise [single] (2005)
- Little By Little... [re-release] (2006)
Credits
- Written by Huffman/Lin/Nelson, © Song-Based Songs (ASCAP)
- Produced, engineered, and mixed by John Goodmanson and Steve Fisk
- Recorded at Robert Lang Studios with engineering assistance by Justin Armstrong
- Backing vocals by Jacob Hoffman
Lyrics
Dog in the manger, always a danger
You got me so, so wrong, so what? So long
Don’t be a stranger
It had barely started out
Before it started heading south
In the never-ending story of a love
That dare not shut its mouth
I get the picture, picture
I think I get it
Think? No, I think I know
No, no, I wish I didn’t
Still, I think I get it
Behind the curtain, we got to flirting
It was a gateway drug, I know, I know
It’s disconcerting
Even now, when I’m still driving by your house
When it’s late at night and the lights are out
And I saw somebody sneaking in your side door
What are friends for, anyway?
And I’m just wondering who you think
You are fooling with such a tired myth
That says some people are better off alone
Than with a stepping stone
I get the picture, picture
I think I get it
Think? Ha! I think I know
(No, no!) I wish I didn’t
Still, I think I get it
Why do you insist on being such a girl about it?
You said you hope we could still be friends, I doubt it
No one owes a debt – index finger, second fret –
Another song to torch to warm the winter of our disconnect, now
I’m still trying to decide
Between a thwarted lust and wounded pride
When I see your absence everywhere I look
And even when I close my eyes…
I get the picture, picture
I think I get it
(Think? No!) I think I know
(No, no!) I wish I didn’t
Wish I could be cool (c-c-cold!)
Like certain people (oh no!)
Up in the mixture (no! no!)
I get the picture
Still, I think I get it
Quotes
Sean: [The Kill Rock Stars release of LBL is] a little different. It feels different for us because we changed the order of the second half and we swapped a song from the bonus disc with a song that was on the record. "Incommunicado" was on the record and "Picture Picture" was on the bonus disc and we switched them... We felt that it didn't fit on the record, that it was too aggressive... As time went by, it became clearer that those sharper edges were missing from the record, I think. Now it feels like the record is actually done, and having the power to revise it like that was really exciting. Because at first we thought, maybe we should leave it because that's the way it was, but then we thought, you know, in every period of this band's life I thought, I wish we had done that differently. And this was a chance to do that. It's a tiny victory, but it feels huge for us.SS
Sean: More rock AND more talk!10A