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 al O'Henry Sound Studios

Burbank, CA on April 25,1994