Well, I have a picture in color of you
And it's there in my room to remind me of you
So it was with surprise that I saw you today
And I did not recognize you, girl, what more can I say?

For the colors are gone
You've become kind of gray
And you're not like the swan
That I knew yesterday

Now the pictures are wrong
You've become kind of gray
I imagine the swan
That you were yesterday

The sadness that I felt was hard on my eyes
And the truth on my face was hard to disguise
So I let you walk by, I turned out of your way
And I tried to close my eyes and let the sadness fall away

For the colors are gone
You've become kind of gray
And you're not like the swan
That I knew yesterday

Now the pictures are wrong
You've become kind of gray
I imagine the swan
That you were yesterday