Boat Song

Several years back, while pregnant with Baby #1, I had the privilege of hearing JJ Heller sing for the first time. Her voice is like candy. Or butter. Or sweet candy butter. Maybe taffy. Anyhow, it is smooth and sweet and just makes you feel like everything is going to be okay. She sang a song that was going to be on an upcoming lullaby album - the Boat Song. I only heard it once, but it stuck with me. I made a mental note to buy that album when it came out, and I did. I Dream of You has been our go-to album to rock Baby #2 to. It is perfect: calm, sweet, truthful, and hopeful. It quiets the baby's heart and also ours.

I listen to Boat Song most often, and my oldest now requests me to sing it at all times of day and night. It's just that kind of song that you can't hear enough.

Tonight I watched the official video that goes with it and I cried. It is a beautiful, sentimental placeholder of this season in our lives. I know you'll enjoy it too ...

If you were a boat, my darling
A boat, my darling
I'd be the wind at your back
If you were afraid, my darling
Afraid, my darling
I'd be the courage you lack

If you were a bird, then I'd be a tree
And you would come home, my darling, to me
If you were asleep, then I'd be a dream
Wherever you are, that's where my heart will be

Oh, do you know we belong together?
Oh, do you know my heart is yours?

If you were the ocean, I'd be the sand
If you were a song, I'd be the band
If you were the stars, then I'd be the moon
A light in the dark, my darling, for you

Oh, do you know we belong together?
Oh, do you know my heart is yours?

Oh, do you know we belong together?
Oh, do you know my heart is yours?
Oh, do you know we belong together?
Oh, do you know my heart is yours?