Scenes of youth and of beauty
Scenes of hardships and strife
Scenes of wealth and of plenty,
old age and a blushing young bride
Hang on the wall, but the saddest of all
is the picture from life's other side
A picture from life's other side
Somebody has felled by the way,
And a life has gone out with the tide,
That might have been happy some day.
Some poor mother at home,
Is watching and waiting alone,
That's a picture from life's other side.
Now the first scene is one
Their paths in life differently led
One lived in luxury and riches
And the other one begged for his bread
One night they met on the highway
Your money, your life, Sir, one cried
took his own brother's life
Now the next scene is down by the river
A heartbroken mother and babe
In the harbor light glare see them shiver,
Outcasts that no one will save.
Once she was a true woman,
Somebody's darling in pride.
That's a picture from life's other side.
Just a picture from life's other side.
Somebody has fell by the way.
And a life that's gone out with the tide.
That might have been happy some day.
Some poor mother at home,
watching and waiting alone.
Longing to hear from her loved one so dear,
that's a picture from life's other side.
