Released: July 30, 2012

Songwriter: Kevin Risto Waynne Nugent Frank Ocean

Producer: Midi Mafia

[Verse 1]
I'll stack these magazines in the corner
After I'm done with them
And I still got the same hope that I started with
That you'll be in one of them
My camera shed some tears since you left him
With nothing, with nothing

[Pre-Chorus]
How am I supposed to remember?
I got the memories
But the memories fade, baby
What am I gonna show to my kids, girl?
When I'm older, and my mind is telling me to forget you
What's gonna make me remember?

[Chorus]
That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss a thing, miss a thing
Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures
When you knew they were all that I had left - nothing left
They were part of our history, this story
I was always taking pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss you so bad, miss you this bad
Miss you so bad, miss you so

[Verse 2]
We didn't make love, we celebrated its invention
Confetti on the mattress – I used to have those images
Tonight I came home they were just embers in the fire
Along with my hard drive, no notes, no goodbye

[Pre-Chorus]
How the hell am I supposed to remember?
Tell me now, the memories
The memories fade, baby
What am I gonna show to my kids, baby?
When I'm older, and my mind's telling me to forget you
What's gonna make me remember?

[Chorus]
That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss a thing, miss a thing
Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures
When you knew they were all that I had left – nothing left
They were part of our history, this story
I was always taking pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss you

[Bridge]
No videos, no polaroids, yeah
No record of the love we had, yeah
My Nikon wasn't fast enough
To catch my heart break in half
No smiles on my picture frames, no
Just got them, little basic ones that the pictures frames come with
Models, wedding pictures, you know

[Chorus]
That's why I was always taking pictures, pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss a thing, miss a thing
Tell me how could you take the pictures, pictures?
When you knew they were all that I had left – nothing left
They were part of our history, this story
I was always taking pictures
'Cause I didn't wanna miss you so bad, miss you this bad
Miss you so bad, miss you so

Conor Maynard

Conor Paul Maynard is an English singer, songwriter and YouTuber from Brighton, England.

In 2006, Conor started a YouTube channel to upload his song covers, on which he posted his first cover of “Breathe” by Lee Carr in 2010.

In 2012 he released his first studio album Contrast. Since then, he kept working on covers, mashups and sing-offs with other YouTube stars. A year later he released his first EP Animal, with the single “Animal” featuring UK rapper Wiley, which boosted his presence in the Pop scene, followed by his EP Talking About in 2015.