[Intro. (Acoustic Guitar)] [简介。 （木吉他） ]

   

I rode my bike to town today 我骑着自行车去镇上今天

Wobbling down the path 摇晃下来的路径

I knew the kids would see me 我知道孩子们会看到我

I love it when they laugh 我喜欢它，当他们笑

   

And I wish I were a camera 我希望我是一个摄像头

And I could slice time like a knife 我可以切时间如刀

Seeing stories in the faces 看到在脸上的故事

And crystallizing life 和晶的生活

   

Wish I were a camera 希望我是一个摄像头

I wish it all the time 我想这一切的时候

It gives my eyes a reason 它给我的眼睛有原因

It gives my life a rhyme 它给我的生活韵

   

I'd be a lens that could see souls 我是一个镜头，可以看到灵魂

A shutter that never shuts 快门从未关闭

I'd have film that lasts forever 我不得不电影永远持续

I would live in huts 我住在木屋

   

In the jungles of South America 在南美洲的丛林

Like my father before the war 就像我的父亲在战争之前

I'd find out where we came from 我会找出我们来自何方

And what this life is for 什么这辈子是

   

And I wish I were a camera 我希望我是一个摄像头

I wish it all the time 我想这一切的时候

It gives my eyes a reason 它给我的眼睛有原因

It gives my life a rhyme 它给我的生活韵

   

[Instrumental (Percussion and Acoustic Guitar)] [器乐（打击乐和吉他） ]

   

I wish I were a camera 我希望我是一个摄像头

I wish it all the time 我想这一切的时候

It gives my eyes a reason 它给我的眼睛有原因

It gives my life a rhyme 它给我的生活韵

   

And I would climb right off this planet 我会爬马上这个星球

On the clearest night of all 对所有的最清晰的夜晚

And photograph the future 而拍照的未来

When it finally comes to call 当它终于来调用

   

I would save up all these images 我保存了所有这些图片

These instants in a box 这些瞬间在一个盒子

And when I am old and lonely 当我老了，寂寞

They could cover up the clocks 他们可以掩盖时钟

   

And I wish I were a camera 我希望我是一个摄像头

I wish it all the time 我想这一切的时候

It gives my eyes a reason 它给我的眼睛有原因

It gives my life a rhyme 它给我的生活韵

   

I wish that I could shoot at night 我希望我能在夜间拍摄

And leave without a trace 离开无踪

And catch my lover's sleeping smile 并赶上我的爱人的笑容睡觉

By the starlight on her face 由她脸上的星光

   

But I think mostly that I'd see children 但我想，我会看到孩子们

'Cause they haven't learned to hide 因为他们还没有学会隐藏

And they watch me on my bicycle 他们看我在我的自行车

And laugh with me as I ride 和我一起笑，因为我骑

   

While I ride, while I ride 虽然我骑，我一边骑

While I ride, while I ride ... 虽然我骑，我一边骑...