This is one for the German-speakers around here. My squeaky four-year-old lass goes around singing Es ist nicht immer leicht ich zu sein (It isn’t always easy being me):
Here are the lyrics. I’m not sure how I feel about this. Wiseguys are a German acapella band, whose latest CD Frei (free from what?) is compulsory listening every morning in the car to kindergarten. I have taken to dropping off the wee one by bike more often, come rain or shine.
Thanks to the Wiseguys my daughter is also familiar with the concept of relativity (lyrics):
Relativ thus being the word of the moment. She’s four. Soon she shall discover irony. Then post-structuralism. False consciousness. And then puberty. They grow up so quickly.
It’s not easy being a child in this day and age.
July 19, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Yes, she does sing this with conviction and perhaps she needs now to understand the essential lightness of being… give her some books to read.