Little One has been on hiatus from piano lessons as her days are filled with studies, cheerleading practice, basketball games, and practice for the Youth Play at the local little theatre. The kids are doing Midsummer Night's Dream this year, and she is a fairy. She's also in the church youth choir and attends Young Life every week.
She clearly misses piano lessons, and has played her piano as much as ever during this break, missing only the lessons themselves. It's two less chauffeur trips a week for me, thankfully..
Lately she's been playing and singing an old favorite of hers, "100 Years" by Five for Fighting.
Here are the lyrics:
I'm fifteen for a moment
Caught in between ten and twenty
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
I'm twenty two for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars
Fifteen… there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
Fifteen…there's never a wish better than this
When you only got a hundred years to live…
I'm thirty three for a moment
Still the man but you see I'm a they
A kid on the way
A family on my mind
I'm forty five for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
Fifteen… there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose yourself
Within a morning star
Fifteen… I'm all right with you
Fifteen… there's never a wish better than this
When you only got a hundred years to live…
Half time goes by
Suddenly you’re wise
Another blink of an eye
Sixty seven is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on...
I'm ninety nine for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are...
Fifteen… there's still time for you
Twenty two… I feel her too
Thirty three… you’re on your way
Every day's a new day
Fifteen… there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey fifteen… there's never a wish better than this
When you only got a hundred years to live...
Little One has sung this song before and, while I noticed how lovely the words are, I've never been so moved by the words.. and her.. and me.
She's almost fifteen now! And she sits, and plays piano so beautifully, and sings the words with pure spirit and a heart just bursting with love for her music.
I'm on the other end of the cycle, past the halfway mark in my own life, just now beginning to reach my prime, just now beginning to serve in a way I'd like to serve, and thinking back on how I've spent my own life. "Capture your moments!" I want to say. "Hold on! Don't rush it!" and finally, "I am so proud of you! Please keep singing -- no matter what, please... just... sing."
But I say nothing. And she moves on to another song.
Fifteen -- there's still time for you
And you've only got a hundred years to live...
