Maybe it's just the part of my life I'm in, but I often find that songs written for children speak to me more than the stuff intended for more grown-up types. But I think it's partly because the kids' music I'm listening to isn't trying to be brilliant or edgy or wow the kids with its insight. It's just trying to be something that kids can get.
I don't know. It's just...realer.
That's my preface to saying that I get a lot of hope and comfort from this simple and very rhymey song written for the post-Raffi age group. You'd probably get more out of it if you could hear it, but I can't find a version of it on the internet to share. It's called Heartache to Happy by Tom Chapin.
Sometimes things go bad
and it makes me sad
but I've begun to learn
that dark clouds lift and planets shift
and everything will turn.
Me oh me oh my
there are times I cry
but everything must change
and what seems tragic will be magic
when we rearrange
from sadness to gladness, hurt to harmony,
despairing to caring, heartache to happy.
No sorrow tomorrow, gloom to gaiety,
from dark clouds to sunshine, heartache to happy
Up and down I go
and when I'm very low
I try and keep this straight:
never falter, life will alter,
morph and modulate
from sadness to gladness, hurt to harmony
despairing to caring, heartache to happy.
When things go bad it makes me sad,
but I've begun to learn
that dark clouds lift and planets shift
and everything will turn
from sadness to gladness, hurt to harmony
despairing to caring, heartache to happy.
No sorrow tomorrow, gloom to gaiety,
from dark clouds to sunshine, heartache to happy.
Heartache to happy.
It's just rings true to me. And it makes me think of this scripture from Revelation 21:4.
And
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away.
