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Polaroid Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I forget who we were back then
But Saturday nights stealin' cold beer and cigarettes
At a house we didn't know wearin' our now-vintage clothes
Lookin' at this photo
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I remember someone sayin', "Smile"
Who would have thought we'd still be smilin' now
[Chorus]
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, mm
Ooh, mm
[Verse 2]
Too many times these moments, they come and go
How lucky was I that our moment was set in stone?
Even though the colors faded and everybody changes
I'm holdin' on to this photo
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I remember fallin' just like that
And now it's kinda crazy lookin' back
[Chorus]
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, mm
Ooh, mm
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, I remember someone sayin', "Smile"
Who would have thought we'd still be smilin' now
[Chorus]
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
[Outro]
Ooh, mm, you
Ooh, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
Sometimes I forget who we were back then
But Saturday nights stealin' cold beer and cigarettes
At a house we didn't know wearin' our now-vintage clothes
Lookin' at this photo
Oh, I remember someone sayin', "Smile"
Who would have thought we'd still be smilin' now
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
Ooh, mm
Ooh, mm
Too many times these moments, they come and go
How lucky was I that our moment was set in stone?
Even though the colors faded and everybody changes
I'm holdin' on to this photo
Oh, I remember fallin' just like that
And now it's kinda crazy lookin' back
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
Ooh, mm
Ooh, mm
Oh, I remember someone sayin', "Smile"
Who would have thought we'd still be smilin' now
We've come a long way since we were strangers in the basement
At a party we hated, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
Ooh, mm, you
Ooh, tryna make conversation
The night it was taken, I didn't have a clue
That someday I'd be somethin' more
Than just a boy in a Polaroid with you
Song Info
Submitted by
mellow_harsher On Sep 18, 2020
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Written by Steph Jones (Pink, Selena Gomez), Geoff Warburton (5 Seconds of Summer, Shawn Mendes), Sam Fischer (Demi Lovato, Jessie J), Griffen Palmer and Mark Trussell, the guitar-driven number is a nostalgic throwback to a time before smartphone cameras. Urban didn't write the song, but when his friends sent it to him, he immediately connected with its concept.
"When I first moved to Nashville, my band and I lived in this just, rundown, piece-of-crap house, and we had parties all the time, and somebody gave us a Polaroid camera, and we'd take pictures of everybody and put them up on a wall," the singer told Zane Lowe. "And the idea that this couple in this photograph who were at a party that they didn't really want to be at, but they sort of ran into each other and someone said, 'Hey, smile.' And they snapped them. And then all these years later, they're still together. And who would have thought that someday I'd be more than just a boy in a Polaroid with you, which I thought was just such a great lyric."The video, directed by Dano Serny, finds Urban taking part in a backyard pool party. The clip captures all the action in a virtual Polaroid picture.