Picture Show In My Mind
Song Notes, Lyrics & Tabs

"Winner of the 2004 Ghostwriters In The Sky Songwriting Competition!"

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Song Notes:

      I actually had this song in my head for  a couple of years before the songwriting contest at Hankfest.  I knew what I wanted it to be about, and I knew that I wanted it to sound like an old Hank song.  Marty's Ghost Writer's In the Sky Competition gave me the motivation to finish it.

      I figured even if it didn't win, I'd still have a finished song, and that alone is worth the entry fee.

Lyrics:

Picture Show In My Mind
Words and Lyrics © by Brent Hoodenpyle

There's a picture show playing in my mind
It's a movie that I've seen a thousand times
The couple in this tragedy
Looks a lot like you and me
At the picture show playing in my mind.

I sit there in the darkness all alone
While the leading man comes home to find you gone
Someone else now loves his wife
On a screen as big as life
At the picture show playing in my mind

Chorus:

Where the soda pop is cheap
And the air's always cold
As the love that you gave
As the lies that you told

No matter where I go
I close my eyes to find
The picture show playing in my mind.

It rumbles through my mind just like a train
And its destination call will bring me pain
But I know in there I'll see
A time when you belonged to me
At the picture show playing in my mind

Repeat Chorus

Guitar Tabs:

Picture Show In My Mind
Words and Lyrics © by Brent Hoodenpyle

E                               B                  E
There's a picture show playing in my mind

        A                                             E
It's a movie that I've seen a thousand times

                A
The couple in this tragedy

            E
Looks a lot like you and me

                             B7                 E
At the picture show playing in my mind.

E                     B7                 E     E7
I sit there in the darkness all alone

               A                                                    E
While the leading man comes home to find you gone

               A
Someone else now loves his wife

        E
On a screen as big as life

                             B7                 E        E7
At the picture show playing in my mind

Chorus:

                A
Where the soda pop is cheap

             E
And the air's always cold

           A
As the love that you gave

           E               B7
As the lies that you told

     E
No matter where I go

                            A
I close my eyes to find

      E                  B7                E
The picture show playing in my mind.

Verse:

It rumbles through my mind just like a train
And its destination call will bring me pain
But I know in there I'll see
A time when you belonged to me
At the picture show playing in my mind

Repeat Chorus