Camera Lyrics

I rode my bike to town today Wobbling down the path I knew the kids would see me I love it when they laugh
And I wish, I were a camera And I could slice time like a knife Seeing stories in the faces And crystallizing life
Wish I were a camera I wish it all the time It gives my eyes a reason It gives my life a rhyme
I'd be a lens that could see souls A shutter that never shuts I'd have film that lasts forever And I would live in huts
In the jungles of South America Like my father, before the war I'd find out where we came from And what this life is for
And I wish, I were a camera I wish it all the time It gives my eyes a reason It gives my life a rhyme
And I wish I were a camera I wish it all the time It gives my eyes a reason It gives my life a rhyme
I would climb right off this planet On the clearest night of all And photograph the future When it finally comes to call
I would save up all these images These instants in a box And when I am old and lonely They could cover up the clocks
And I wish, I were a camera I wish it all the time It gives my eyes a reason It gives my life a rhyme
I wish that I could shoot at night And leave without a trace And catch my lover's sleeping smile By the starlight on her face
But I think mostly that I'd see children 'Cause they haven't learned to hide And they watch me on my bicycle And laugh with me as I ride