Lyrics

Before I left for Los Angeles, Michael made me a CD of a variety of songs from my iPod. Some Billy Joel, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Elton John, Liz Phair and soundtrack from Juno. Parker likes the Juno tracks and requests them over and over (1, 2, 10, and 13). I just give him the remote (yes, my car stereo has a remote) and he can listen to whatever he wants. I don't really care as long as he listens to whole songs at a time.

So this weekend, I took him and a new neighborhood friend Fin to The Jungle about 20 minutes away. Parker requested the remote and even offered to share it with Fin (who could not have cared less). After a few minutes, Parker says, "Fin...did you hear that part? It said "If you want to burn yourself, if you want to cut yourself, if you want to kill yourself..."

Holy Shit! That is what it really said! I mean I had heard the lyrics about 100 times, but I never thought much about it...until another kid was in the car. I jumped in before he could discuss it more..."Oh that isn't very nice to say, is it? Let's change the song, Parker."

Thank god we didn't get to the part that goes: "Fuck Bush and and fuck this war." I'm sure Fin's mom would have loved that.

Needless to say, we switched CDs on the way home.