When I was growing up, my dad played a lot of Cat Stevens on the reel-to-reel. It's become my favorite comfort music, and perhaps the one that is closest to my heart is "Very Young." It's a song I don't recall hearing so much as a kid, but one that reminds me of the fragility of life, children, and dreams.
Quite fitting that on Highway W, just after leaving the farm to head back home, it came over the radio. I turned it up loud and the girls and I sang along. I didn't cry, but I wanted to. The best line in the song is about dad's jeans. I took a photo of dad's jeans on the clothes line while I was there, fluffy clouds, corn and all.
Sing along for a minute:
Oh very young what will you leave us this time?
You're only dancing on this earth for a short while.
And though your dreams may toss and turn you now,
They will vanish away like your dad's best jeans,
Denim blue fading up to the sky.
And though you want them to last forever,
You know they never will.
You know they never will.
And the patches make the goodbye harder still.
Oh very young what will you leave us this time?
There'll never be a better chance to change your mind.
And if you want this world to see a better day,
Will you carry the words of love with you?
Will you ride the great white bird into heaven?
And though you want to last forever,
You know you never will.
You know you never will.
And the goodbye makes the journey harder still.
Oh very young what will you leave us this time?
You're only dancing on this earth for a short while.
Oh very young what will you leave us this time?
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