If this doesn’t brighten your day, then whoops, you have no soul.
March 16, 2006This, my friends, is why having a child is a worthwhile endeavor: yes, it’s hard, and it’s smelly, and you miss all that sleep you used to get. And then the years pass, and you have to deal with grades, and heartaches, and driving tests. But then! (Stay with me, here.) Then one day you wake up, and your behemoth of a man-child has left a CD for you, and you listen to this song that he wrote. And you realize that however big you thought your boy’s heart is, it’s actually ten times bigger. (Metaphorically speaking.)
If you’re even luckier, though, you get your reward early—say, when your child is three and a half, and you hear the song that your nephew wrote for your little boy.
(Incidentally, I have two nephews, both of whom are too amazing to be true—I think they may in fact be holograms—but, ahem, only one of them wrote a song for Henry. So, Dave, if you want equal airtime, may I suggest an oil portrait? Or how about a little interpretative dance? Just a thought.)
Here, without further ado, is “Underwater Batman (Song for Henry).”
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Reader Comments (105)
I wish, Buddy.
As for Henry's additions to the song, it reminds me of tapes my grandmother has of me (at about Henry's age) belting out songs to Aquaman (offering him a bottle of beer) and Johnny Carson (telling him how my I love him).
Funny what kids think about at that age.