Bill Anderson - Picture From Life's Other Side lyrics

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures

Hang the scenes that're painted from life

There hang pictures of love and of passion

And there's pictures of sorrow and strife.

There hang pictures of youth and of beauty

Of old age and a blushing young bride

But the saddest of all that hang on the wall

Are the pictures from life's other side.

Just a picture from life's other side

Someone has fell by the way

A life has gone out with the tide

That might have been happy some day.

There's a poor old mother at home

Who's watching and waiting alone

Just longing to hear

From a loved one so dear.

It's a picture from life's other side.

Now the first scene is that of a gambler

Who's lost all his money at play

And he reaches down and takes

His dead mother's ring from her finger.

The one that she wore

Long ago on her wedding day

It's his last earthly treasure

But he stakes it.

Then bows his head

That his shame he might hide

When they lifted his head

They found he was dead.

It's just a picture from life's other side.

Now the last scene is that by the river

Of a heartbroken mother and babe

As the harbor lights shine and they shiver

On an outcast whom that no one can save.

And yet she was once a true woman

She was somebody's darling and pride

God help her she leaps for there's no one to weep

It's a picture from life's other side...