Lucas asked for "a new song, one I never heard before!" at bedtime tonight so I sang him Neil Young's "Helpless". At the end he asked:
L: What "Helpless helpless helpless helpless" mean?
D: He's just saying the word "helpless" over and over again. Do you know what that word means?
L: No. What "helpless" mean?
D: It means you feel like you can't control something, that you can't do anything about it. He's singing about his old home from a long time ago, and now it's locked up and he can't do anything about it. He can't do anything about a lot of things, all the changes that are happening to him.
L: [thinks]
D: Do you ever feel helpless?
L: [thinks] No. Where my old home?
D: You don't have one. You've always lived in the same home.
L: [thinks]. Kristin has a helpless home!
D: That's right! Kristin and Greg moved to Indiana, and their old home is here in Ann Arbor.
The stuff he comes up with.....
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He's a thinker!
It's true! Our poor old house is helpless now that it's been 1/4 re-painted for more than a year(in ugly colors, I might add) and my gardens are not tended to!
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My changes are there.....
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