For Maggie and Morgan’s birthday party, the party favor will be a CD of some of their favorite songs. Amazingly, they have pretty good taste, and I’ve gotten good reviews of the CD from a wide range of people. Of course, the first version of the CD needed some changes made: they didn’t love a song or two, and there were two that had the word “hell” in it, so we wanted to change it instead of running the risk of upsetting their friends’ parents.
The other night, we were going through the CD and Maggie was telling me which songs she liked and which ones she thought we should take off. When we got to Big Yellow Taxi (Don’t it always seem to go– you don’t know what you’ve got ’til its gone. They’ve paved paradise and put up a parking lot), she said, “Well, we have to get rid of this one.” I was completely caught off guard. She loved the song and sings along whenever we hear it, which, considering we have been listening to the “M&M CD Take 1″ pretty much non-stop for a couple weeks, is quite a lot. Of course, I asked why it had to go.
“Because they say fucking,” she said. She was calm, casual and completely comfortable telling me that. I tried to be breezy when I told her that they didn’t say that and ask her to show me where they did. We listened several times, and she kept giving me the look (complete with pointing and knowing nod) that said, “Right there. You see? Fucking.”
Finally, I realized that as far as Maggie was concerned, the Counting Crows were singing, “Don’t it always seem to go– you don’t know what you’ve got ’til its gone. They’ve paved paradise and put up a fucking lot.”
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