So I’m driving on the highway and I’m listening to a playlist I made this January from songs I found on my Mom’s computer. Elton John’s Your Song comes on and for some reason I really listened to the words. The music is beautiful but the words are really quite stunning. And so I get this warm loving feeling and even start to tear up. Not sure why. Maybe it’s the song. Maybe it’s because I made the playlist while I was still blissfully unaware of cancer. Maybe it’s because I associate it with Moulin Rouge and and the sadness of that movie. Dunno. Anyway feeling all this love, I glance up in the rear view mirror to look at my darling little boy who is sitting peacefully in his carseat. With his fingers in his ears.
3 responses to “Your song”
cheryl stouff
July 31st, 2008 at 17:31
Oh Nicole, that is a favorite of mine and I don’t care how it dates me, I still love Elton John, he is a great song writer. I think music can stir our emotions more than anything else. Just to let you know I think of you often and pray for you when I do. I am praying that you will be here for a long, long time. You have so much to give…….Cheryl
alison
August 1st, 2008 at 07:19
kids, eh?
it’s just nice to find a song that you don’t have to explain to your kids what it means, and oh no, I can’t tell him that, oh damn, can’t listen to that in the car anymore…
these days I am thankful for the parental advisory stickers…
Katie
August 1st, 2008 at 10:24
Hilarious! When my kids were little I tried to introduce lots of kinds of music, but esp. classical as they were going to learn instruments. So, one day I am playing a Mozart symphony and my 2-yr old daughter declares, from her little car seat, “no more munch!!!”
Well, after all, Mozart is pretty hard to say that young… 😉