Music: David Crosby, Stephen Stills;
Lyrics David Crosby (c) 1994 Stay Straight Music,
All rights adm by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., bmi
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 l'd see children
'Cause they haven't learned to hide
And they watch me on my bicycle
And laugh with me as I ride
Bass: Alex Sklarevski
Drums Tristan Imboden
Percussion: Rafael Padilla
Acoustic Guitars Stephen Stills
Lead Vocal: David Crosby
Producer and Engineer: Glyn Johns
Engineer: Paul Dieter
Assistant Engineer: Bran Swain
Mixed by Glyn Johns
Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios
Burbank, ca on April 25, 1994
(4: 20) Music: David Crosby, Stephen Stills; Lyrics David Crosby (c) 1994 Stay Straight Music, All rights adm by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., bmi 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 l'd see children 'Cause they haven't learned to hide And they watch me on my bicycle And laugh with me as I ride Bass: Alex Sklarevski Drums Tristan Imboden Percussion: Rafael Padilla Acoustic Guitars Stephen Stills Lead Vocal: David Crosby Producer and Engineer: Glyn Johns Engineer: Paul Dieter Assistant Engineer: Bran Swain Mixed by Glyn Johns Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios Burbank, ca on April 25, 1994 Explain Request ×
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