Neil and I don't always dig the same music, but every so often we'll discover or re-discover an artist we both just love. Chris Pureka is our latest in that category, so we've been making dinner, cleaning up and generally hanging out to her cds on the hifi quite a bit lately. Patrick is amazing with anything music and last night he told us that this song, which has outrageously contagious and complicated timing, made him feel kind of sad. He said he thought it was about someone being left alone. Which it is, but in a very sophisticated way, both lyrically and musically. The refrain is, "I'll tell you what, I'll save you the trouble of running away..." Certainly not a direct line about being left behind if you're ten years old. That boy can listen. At least when you're not trying to give him directions.
After he identified the song's motif, he wandered into his room singing the song, beautifully and with perfect pitch. He's quite the kid. Here he is on the first day of fifth grade, a couple weeks ago. He was annoyed with me for making him pose for the picture.
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