Friday, April 22, 2011

Born to Hum

If you know me, you know that I love to sing. When I am not singing, I am most often humming a song to myself or have one on my mind. Lately, I have noticed that I have not been singing as much or humming. I think that it is a reflection on being overwhelmed. But today marks the first day of my spring break and I put Pandora on to my favorite station and the first song that came on was, "Born to Hum" by Erin McKeown. It struck a chord for one major reason that's in the first line of this song:

Once in the spring of my twenty-fourth year
I had nothing to say
With a dangling promise and a terrible past
I threw all the words away
We were born to hum

You were the last in my twenty-fourth year
To make a demand of my voice
I tickled your ear and I laughed in your face
I gave you my choice
We were born to hum
We were born to hum
Hum
Hum

So as a gradual running
A kinda relief
Settles on my face
Once in a while I complain to myself
Nothing gets done
Nothing's in place

I, I would rather hum
I, I would rather hum

Hum
Hum
Hum

Here I am in the 24th year of my life and it is springtime. I would rather hum!

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