"You and Your Heart"

I know I mentioned that the babe has been quite good company lately, but that doesn't mean she's any less bossy.  Sometimes I forget she's only 3.5 with the way she can order me around.  Luckily most of those orders are coming my way in the car when she's telling me which song she wants to listen to.

The babe is OBSESSED with Jack Johnson these days.  I bought his new album, To The Sea and have been playing it in the car lately.  But all she wants to hear is the first track, "You and Your Heart."  She wants to hear it over and over and over again.  Slightly obsessive behavior.

Anyway, last weekend my husband was in the car with us and the babe requested her favorite tune.  My husband obliged and cranked it when she asked him to turn it up.  The kids proceeded to laugh and bop along to the song while my husband looked back at them also bopping his head with a huge grin on his face.  It was definitely a moment.  Only trouble is, the babe is constantly trying to recreate that moment.

I don't mind listening to the song, but I have to tell you I am pretty sick of it.  I'm also not willing to crank it every morning on the way to school.  But when I do play it relatively loud, and take a quick look back at them, they are both bopping their heads to the beat and making each other laugh.  It is so freakin' cute.

Jack will be coming to DC this month, and I know the babe would get a huge kick out of seeing him in concert, but she may get annoyed when he wants to play more than just her favorite song.

You and Your Heart from To The Sea
Jack Johnson, 2010

"I’ll watch you when you say
What you are
And when you blame
Everyone, you broken king

I’ll watch you change the frame
I’ll watch you
when you take your aim
At the sum of everything

You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose what you take
Why you gotta break and
\Make it feel so hard

You lay there in the street
Like broken glass
Reflecting pieces of the sun
You’re not the flame

You cut the people passing by
Because you know what you don’t like
It’s just so easy

It’s just so easy

You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose
What you take
Why you gotta break and
Make it feel so hard
You and your heart
Shouldn’t feel so far apart
You can’t choose
What you take
Why you gotta break and
Make it feel so hard

You draw so many lines in the sand
Lost the fingernails on your hands
How you gonna scratch any backs
Better hope the tide
Will take our lines away
Take all our lines and….

Hope the tide will take our lines a…
Hope the tide will take our lines away
Take all our lines away"