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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
- Album:
- Miscellaneous
- Crosby, Stills & Nash [with Bonus Tracks]
- Crosby, Stills & Nash [Digital Version]
- Reflections
- The David Crosby Box
- Voyage [Box Set]
- Daylight Again (Deluxe Version)
- Rhino Hi-Five: Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Crosby, Stills & Nash (Bonus Track Version) [Remastered]
- Live at United Nations General Assembly Hall, New York,...
- Woodstock: Music From the Original Soundtrack and More,...
- Live in L.A.
- Woodstock 94
- 1991-11-10: Live USA: Warfield Theatre, San Francisco,...
- 2007-11-29: Trusts Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand
- CSN 2012
- 2012-08-21: Red Rocks Ampitheatre, Morrison, CO, USA
- Carry On
- Replay
- Crosby, Stills & Nash