Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I'm a child

God, now this could bring out a whole mountain of issues! There's a lot of pain associated with this one. It actually scares me a bit. Well it's obvious isn't it - I'm a child because I am here. This means I have a mother and a father. Some would question that. Fuck, I would question that. But regardless of what kind of parents I had I still had a mother and a father and I was still their child. I was still a child. Ooohhhh yeah scary shit. I was a child. Some parts of me feel like shouting it - I was a child! For fucks sake I was just a child! Feeling the issues starting to rise? Ick. There's a song, the first time I heard it I was sitting in the traffic in Spaghetti Junction, not moving. It was a summers afternoon, the sun was shining and it was yummy and warm. This always puts me in a good mood. I was happy and feeling good. Doing my usual checkin' out the other drivers to see if there was anything perve-worthy. I put on the CD I'd won a while ago as I hadn't even listened to it yet. Crawling along, havin a good ole sing-a-long when this song started. I didn't know it so I stopping singing and listened. Before I knew it I was bawling my heart out. Not just polite, girly tears - I was crying, heart-wrenching sobs. It really, really, really touched me and bought up a whole lotta crap. Here're the lyrics:

Daughters - John Mayer
I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
But she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same she's been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she's left
Cleaning up the mess he made

So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Boys, you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong
And boys soldier on
But boys would be gone without the warmth from
A womans good, good heart

On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too


My parents travelling down Queen Street in 1971 in their tractor-drawn wagon. Needless to say I didn't have a traditional up-bringing!

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