I GOT YOU CHILD
This is an old old song written more than 30 years ago… called it UNDEROO CHILD (remember Underoos?) at the time and up until a few weeks ago.
Been breathing new life and more understandings into it lately and discovered that the song wants to communicate more than a feeling of nostalgia for our childhoods. I GOT YOU CHILD is also about working with our younger selves on a daily basis and reassuring them that they still have a profound voice and a non-negotiable seat at the table.
Think about the people / think of all the silly people / think of all the little people running / through the yardTake someone’s hand / and with a simple gesture man / you can step like they step / and feel like they doI was a child / I was a sleepy little child / I was a dreamy little child / in my Underoos (2x)I had nothing / and I had everything to lose.Dan kicked the can / into the ice cream man / and he said with a smile / “how do you do?”
“I’d like a popsicle / maybe a creamsicle / whatever you got Mr. / I can use”
I like Spider Man / I like him a lot / I like the webs he spinds / I like what he’s got /
I like the mask he wears / his whole color scheme / I like the words he says / I can hear him scream
I cut a deal with the man on the slide / gotta give me one more year / so I can ride on this ride
Make my legs small / so I can fit on this thing / I’ll make my mind feel it all / so I can …
You can’t give me a thousand moments / and you can’t give me what’s yet to come
you can’t give me my eyes tomorrow / so all I want to be…. is an Underoo Child
I got you child / I can hear what you say
I got you child / I spent a long time away
I got you child / we gonna play
I got you child child child child child child / I got you child child child child child child
I got you child
LET THE WATER
This song began as a reinvention of a song called DIG RIGHT IN, written in NYC in the early 2000s, until it needed to become it’s own thing about a year ago:)
The lyrics (many of them borrowed from age old wisdom) speak for themselves.
The song title encourages a letting go; an honest reckoning of the timelessness of our experiences of life; a faithful surrender to being a small, yet powerful, part of a much larger whole.