Flicker

Forty seconds of a summer
Someone laughing off the frame
You come running up the garden
Turn around and say my name
Every house I've lived in since then
Had a wall I kept for you
Draw the curtains, kill the lamp now
Let the light come walking through

Nobody thought to film the good part
Just the grass, the gate, the sky
Then you ran into the picture
And the reel remembered why

Roll it
Warm and slow
Roll it
Burn and glow
Lights down
Wave hello
Stay
Stay
Wave and don't let go

Once a year I thread it gently
When the August evenings fall
And the dust inside the lamp beam
Turns to fireflies on the wall

Roll it
Warm and slow
Roll it
Burn and glow
Lights down
Wave hello
Stay
Stay
Wave and don't let go

Look at me
Look, it's me

Roll it
Warm and slow
Roll it
Never go
Lights down
Wave hello
Stay
Stay
Still, I won't let go

Now I film the ordinary minutes
Someone's going to want them back