Pocketbooks - Camera Angles lyrics

Every night we sketch a storyboard Drawings spread across the bed Deciphering the day ahead and conversations Sequences and camera angles You're using charcoal and felt-tips I'm posing mannequins to map it all out The imaginary camera work Kicking leaves up in the cul-de-sacs Where every road's a movie set And every conversation has been pre-approved And road-tested by focus groups And here, back in real life at our desks Still imagining we're filming on sets Where the cameras film in single takes So you pick out locations and directions for the cast I'll be learning lines for all occasions that arise We'll imagine clapperboards for every single scene in our day-to-day lives And you'll find continuity from one clip to the next I'll be free to improvise as long as it complies with an overall view Where the cameras always follow you And it's enchanting in a certain way Every word is magnified Every look considered Yet we're bordering on obsession on directing Alongside fictitious camera crews that film Imaginary plots that never work through When the cameras never follow you So you could leave the stories and the dialogue to chance I'll be free to improvise and take things as they come and We'll keep up an open mind for every single scene in our day-to-day lives And we'll find continuity from one day to the next No-one needs a storyboard to tell us what we should have known all along That the cameras follow everyone