[Verse 1 - Frame One]
There's a boy on a porch in summer
Sixty years ago tonight
Fireflies over the fence line
A mother calling him inside
He thinks the evening's endless
He thinks the dark is deep
He doesn't know he's in a frame
That Someone means to keep

[Verse 2 - Frame Two]
There's a man on a midnight highway
With rain against the glass
Bills in the seat beside him
And a decade going past
He thinks the road is random
He thinks the storm is blind
He can't see past the windshield
But he's driving through a Mind

[Chorus]
He holds the filmstrip to the light
Every frame at once in sight
The boy, the man, the last gray day
Already written, already safe
I ride the moments one at a time
He sees the whole design
And the hand that spliced the sorrow in
Spliced the morning in behind

[Verse 3 - Frame Three]
There's an old man in a bright room
With a window full of sky
Family down the hallway
And no fear left in his eye
He can hear the sprocket turning
He can feel the reel run thin
And he smiles, because the Editor
Has let him see the end

[Chorus]
He holds the filmstrip to the light
Every frame at once in sight
The boy, the man, the last gray day
Already written, already safe
I ride the moments one at a time
He sees the whole design
And the hand that spliced the sorrow in
Spliced the morning in behind

[Bridge - Quiet, Almost Spoken]
In Your book all my members were written
When as yet there were none of them
All my days were fashioned
Before I lived a single one
Eternity isn't a long, long time
It's no time, all at once
He isn't waiting at my ending
He's at every frame I was

[Saxophone Solo - Full, Warm]

[Final Chorus - Soft, Resolved]
He holds the filmstrip to the light
And nothing's out of sight
No frame is lost, no scene forgot
No sparrow and no thought
So I'll ride it as it plays
I'll take the frames like bread
The projector hums like a lullaby
And the light is up ahead

[Outro]
Every frame
Already loved
Every frame