[alok-g]

>> In my mind, the events do happen at the same time and just are unable to be observed as such.

Not so, I would say.

Space and time are inherently linked under special (and General) relativity. For two observers who have relative motion between them, the space (distance between two 'events') and time (between the said events) are both different.

When some poem or a song talks about the universe being frozen at a given instant of time, that can be only in a given reference frame. There's no absolute time for the universe.