Camera

I rode my bike to town today
 Wobbling down the path
 Knew the kids would see me
 I love it when they laugh
 And I wish I were a camera
 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
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 I'd be a lens that could see souls
 A shutter that never shuts
 I'd have film that lasts forever
 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
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 Wish I were a camera
 I wish it all the time
 It gives my eyes a reason
 It gives my life a rhyme
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 And 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
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 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
 While I ride, while I ride
 While I ride, while I ride
 While I ride, while I ride
 While I ride, while I ride
 While I ride, while I ride
 While I ride, while I ride