Homer is where the heart is.: Beauty in my favorite song (Don't forget to click the link at the end!)

If you've ever watched the television show The Voice, you know that it has amateur singers competing to win a record contract by singing cover songs. In the fifth season of the show, I fell in love with the voice of a young girl named Caroline Pennell. Her voice was beautiful, ethereal, and angelic. One night, she sang a White Stripes' song called "We're Going To Be Friends." Her rendition was absolutely breathtaking.

The song is beautiful because it expresses the innocence that children experience. The friends in the song walk, play, learn, and discover the natural world around them. At night, they dream of it happening all over again.

Fall is here, hear the yell

Back to school, ring the bell

Brand new shoes, walking blues

Climb the fence, books and pens

I can tell that we are gonna be friends

Walk with me, Suzy Lee

Through the park and by the tree

We will rest upon the ground

And look at all the bugs we found

Safely walk to school without a sound

Here we are, no one else

We walked to school all by ourselves

Theres dirt on our uniforms

From chasing all the ants and worms

We clean up and now its time to learn

Numbers, letters, learn to spell

Nouns and books and show and tell

Playtime we will throw the ball

Back to class, through the hall

Teacher marks our height against the wall

And we don't notice any time pass

We don't notice anything

We sit side by side in every class

Teacher thinks that I sound funny

But she loves the way you sing

Tonight I'll dream while I`m in bed

When silly thoughts go through my head

About the bugs and alphabet

And when I wake tomorrow I'll bet

That you and I will walk together again

I can tell that we are gonna be friends

Yes, I can tell that we are gonna be friends

As a mom, this song really resonated with me. In today's world, it is difficult to escape the bad things happening around us. This song let's you get away from all the negative, even if only for a couple of minutes. That's an important thing to help one stay positive and optimistic.

My two daughters, knowing how much I loved Caroline's arrangement of this song, surprised me with their own performance for Christmas 2013. I was in tears listening to them perform it so beautifully. I especially loved their unknowing innocence in the song. My youngest daughter keeps glancing at the tv, which I find so cute. Their version absolutely means the world to me. To me, it is the most beautiful rendition of the song, flaws and all, because it is heartfelt. I love it so much and hope you will enjoy it too.

Click on this link to see
my daughters sing my favorite song!

2 comments:

UnknownNovember 2, 2015 at 11:38 AM
Your girl are so talented! What a thoughtful gift! Your perspective of the song helped me see the fleeting innocence of my kids.
KrystynaNovember 2, 2015 at 12:58 PM
Thank you. They are both so musical and love to sing. I've always thought the innocence of a child was beautiful. They're so pure and unspoiled by the world. Funnily, my girls, who are 13 and 21 now, rewatched the video with me this weekend and both felt embarrassed by their mistakes. I personally found beauty in the moments where they rolled their eyes, missed a chord, and seemed uninterested in their performance. On the same token, I found it especially beautiful at the end, when they looked into each other's eyes, as if to say, "even though we fight sometimes, we're in this together and we've got this" and then harmonized perfectly.

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Beauty in my favorite song (Don't forget to click the link at the end!)

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