I was watching Groundhog Day tonight and in it is a song that I think fits very well for my role in John’s life. It’s funny to me because the song is sung and written by a man. Listen to the clip here: clickey.
Weatherman
By Delbert McClinton
Pedictions show, a steady low,
You’re feeling just the same.
But seasons come and seasons go,
I’ll make you smile again.
If you don’t believe me, take me by the hand,
can’t you feel you’re warming up?
Ya, I’m your weartherman.
Cold winds blowin’
Snow is driving everone insane.
Hard rains fallin’
Pitter-Patter down your window pain.
If Precipitation is foilin’ all your plans,
Just call information up, ask for the weatherman.
Ask for the weatherman.
They say it’s gone, say weather’s done, that don’t mean a thing.
‘Cause I’m the one, that moves the sun,
For you I’d turn it into spring.
So when your feeling lonely,
Baby I can warm you up, cause I’m your weatherman.
It keeps going with a nice jazz background, but you get the idea…
Nice one. Groundhog’s Day is actually one of my alltime favorite movies! When I broke up with Joe, and pulled a medieval damsel-in-distress type bout of life-threathening mono and strep, I watched that movie over thirty or forty times just to get through the breakup and the illness. I could quote his dialogue to the groundhog verbatim, and annoyed all of my acquaintances and friends as a result. The only scene that I had to fast forward through, was the one where they danced in the gazebo.
I especially loved where she smacked him repeatedly for being a cad, and that little comment about the ‘sun on the sides of the buildings in Rome’…I think it was? At the time, I seemed to identify Bill Murray’s character with the caddish character of Joe, as well as his lovable, charismatic side…while only consciously being aware of how lovable he was…
Needless to say, that I have begun recently to see just exactly what a cad Joe can be. It is unfortunate that he does not own a copy of this movie. It would do him much good to watch it repeatedly. I have visions of tying him to a chair, and making him watch it with his eyelids propped open like the dude in ‘A Clockwork Orange’. Is that bad of me to say?
It does make me wonder if God’s not omnipotent, but he’s just been around so long that he knows everything. 🙂