Picture Perfect

A satchel at my side
A picture in my hand
Of a stranger

A husband, when we're wed
A man to share my bed
And share my life
A picture wife

Will this new man be a stranger
Will America be stranger
Than I know?

Take a photograph
A negative
An image on a plate
Print a positive
On paper and
The image they create

Is America
An open book
A story I can write
Where the negatives
Turn positive
And I turn to the light

Of America
To welcome me
To offer home
And Family
A husband and
A child of my own

Across the ocean
Turns the tide
Two worlds apart
Two Worlds collide

Across the ocean
Turns the tide
Two worlds apart
Two Worlds collide

And I await
Uncertain fate
With certain pride
The picture perfect
Picutre perfect

So sail on through the mist
Let the Hoshi Maru list
From side to side
Women still will ride
Each one a picture bride

Oh the picture's just a picture
It's a photograph on paper
What can it show?
I go