Wednesday, May 28, 2008

For Sweet Baby Jonas

So, each of my girls has a song that I sing to them from when they were new: Piper's is "The Water is Wide" (also sang at our wedding) and Finley's is "Wildflowers" by Tom Petty, random, I know, but whenever they were upset I could without fail calm them by singing them their "song."

Well, Jonas needed a song, although I am singing to him all the time ranging from Bob Marley to the Indiana Jones theme. But here is his song:

Nothing that I Can Do
- Ben Taylor

First morning ever to have seen the sun
Must have run the other way
Until she found that it was only getting earlier that way
When she spun one-hundred eighty degrees
And beheld the sweet light rising through the trees
She fell to her knees and she began to smile, because
She had been in darkness for a long long while,
She said...

There is nothing that I can do but belong to you
Heaven and Earth and I find myself
Sining this song for you
As luck would have it, it just so happens that there's
Nothing I'd Rather do

And the first lesson ever to have learned its way
Must've been suprised
All i can say is im just glad that i survived,
And the first river to have met the sea,
I beleive he must've sighed, said
All this rambling I'm glad to finally find, that
After all I haven't just been wasting my time.

There is nothing that i can do but belong to you
Heaven and Earth and I find myself
Singing this song for you
As luck would have it, it just so happens that there's
Nothing I'd Rather do.

Just so long as your flying around high
Whatever you find out in the sky
dont forget to fall down sometimes
I'm easy to find, look around you
It's a good thing that I finally found you.

There is nothing that I can do but belong to you
Heaven and Earth and I find myself
Singing this song for you
As luck would have it, it just so happens that there's
Nothing I'd Rather do.

Car talk

Piper: What's the name of this song, mom?

Me: 4 minutes to save the world.

Piper: what are the names of the people singing the song?

Me: Madonna, Justin Timberlake, and Tim-Ba-Land

Piper: well, those are interesting names.