21st April, 2009 - 10 Songs That Mean Something to Me #4

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was my Mum and Dad's song, and it always brings a lump to my throat.

It is odd, but my wee girl loves it too. She sings it to me sometimes, innocent of all the emotional charge it carries to me. She has a little blue and white checked dress that she dresses up in to look like Dorothy, and she wanders out into the garden and leans against a bush and sings about a place over the rainbow that blubirds can reach but that I can't quite manage to get to.

For the first time in years I forgot myself yesterday. I reached for the phone and for just a split second I was about to phone my mum. She died some years ago. I wonder if I had forgotten myself completely, the connection might just have reached over the rainbow for a moment or two.