Brave New Blog » music http://www.baz.org/kate/blog Kate's thoughts, occasionally Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:53:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Father and Daughter http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/07/19/father-and-daughter/ http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/07/19/father-and-daughter/#comments Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:57:54 +0000 kate http://www.baz.org/kate/blog/2006/07/19/father-and-daughter/ While we were down in DC for a wedding this past weekend, we stayed with our friends Jeanne and Dave, and their 3 yr old son, Eli. It was a great visit, and there was always music on in the house. One of the CDs David played was Paul Simon’s new album, Surprise. I was really excited to listen to it because it had the song “Father and Daughter.” This was the song my Dad and I danced to at my wedding. It’s a sweet, wonderful song, and had previously only been available on the Wild Thornberry’s soundtrack. Seeing as we don’t have kids, and not being up on Nikelodeon cartoons in general, we never bought the soundtrack (although I was seriously tempted to buy it just for that song).

When we got home Sunday night, Adam bought the album from iTunes. I’ve been playing it a lot this week, and occasionally find myself getting a little teary-eyed when I hear the chorus…

I'm gonna watch you shine
Gonna watch you grow
Gonna paint a sign
So you'll always know
As long as one and one is two
There could never be a father
Who loves his daughter more than I love you.

Not only does this song bring back wonderful memories of my wedding, but the chorus expresses exactly how my Dad feels about me, my sister and my brother. Both of my parents have always made it clear know how much they love us, and that this love is unconditional. I feel very lucky to have parents like mine!

If you haven’t checked out Surprise, you should… it’s really good!

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