I wish I was a camera

I would take a picture of

All the small and subtle stuff

Everything we can't give up

I'll keep my memories all intact

Of how we love and how we laugh

I wanna be a camera

I wanna be a photograph

I wish I was a photograph

Of times and places in the past

The truth is every picture's old

Taking seconds or a year ago

This way we could stay the same

Let the world around us start to change

I wish i was a photograph

Or maybe just a picture frame

A box and a pinhole set in the window to capture the path of the sun

You can hold on to lighting right when it's striking, if you keep the shutter open

Digging through the thumbnail proofs

The ones I keep are ones of you

I wish I was a picture frame

The kind that you can get engraved

One that says "I love you Jill,"

One that says, "I miss you Jane."

Now I know you won't get scratched

Underneath a pane of glass

I wanna be a picture frame

I wanna be a photograph

I wish I was a photograph

So nobody would have to ask

Who was in your high school play?

Or, What was on your wedding cake?

I could be a college crush

I could be an image of

How we live and how we love

I wish I was a camera

How we live and how we love

I wish I was a camera