Lyrics to
Picture This

This version of Picture This was released by Blondie in 1978.

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All I want is a room with a view
A sight worth seeing, a vision of you
All I want is a room with view, oh-oh
I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour, oh yeah

All I want is a photo in my wallet
A small remembrance of something more solid
All I want is a picture of you

Picture this – a day in December
Picture this – freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you’d be on the skids
If it weren’t for your job at the garage
If you could only oh-oh
Picture this – a sky full of thunder
Picture this – my telephone number
One and one is what I’m telling you, oh yeah

All I want is 20-20 vision
A total portrait with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you, oh-oh
If you can picture this – a day in December
Picture this – freezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you’d be on the skids
If it weren’t for your job at the garage
If you could only oh-oh
Picture this – a sky full of thunder
Picture this – my telephone number
One and one is what I’m telling you
Get a pocket computer
Try to do what you used to do yeah

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About Lyrics and Picture This by Blondie

When you decide to study the lyrics to Picture This, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Blondie. Some of the lyrics to Picture This have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Blondie and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Picture This if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Picture This" means the words set to the music of Picture This, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blondie. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Picture This and the lyrics to Picture This are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blondie who came here looking just for the lyrics to Picture This, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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