picture show

way up high in my tree

we would climb to get a peak at the drive-in movie screen

watching people from afar

cozied up inside their cars

underneath a web of summer stars

fireflies flicker by

in a scene where gregory peck catches audrey hepburn's eye

you look at me the moment that i'm staring

darling

do i dare to say the one thing i want you to know?

if life's a picture show

i want to sit with you on the back row

in the film projector's glow

while we kiss on the lips as the credits roll

in my mind i create

my own movie with my grandfather's vintage super 8

i write a script where you will be

the dashing boy who's after me

and maybe we could make this story a reality because

i'd like to play the part of your leading lady

with a heart that's bravely beating

frame by frame in time repeating