I don't wanna go slow I go fast!

A tiny head resting on your shoulder. That is my new best feeling in the world.

My daughter has been sick for the past X number of days, and in the rush of getting things done, and trying to maintain some sort of sanity, things passed me by. Through all the hustle and bustle, I found myself listening to one of the songs I downloaded for her from ITunes. I heard this band from Nick Jr., and I love them. They’re called the Laurie Berkner Band. There is one particularly pertinent song that I love to listen to from them. It’s called ‘Fast and Slow’ – and to children, it’s a song about the tortoise and the rabbit. But there’s another message that’s there for older kids or adults. The following are the lyrics (click on the link for the video).

Fast and Slow
(The Rabbit and the Turtle)

I don’t want to go slow I go fast
I’m a rabbit I hop and I jump and I dash
And I’ll go whizzing by
In the blink of an eye
Like a jet-engine airplane that speeds through the sky
I don’t want to go slow I go fast

I don’t want to go fast I go slow
That’s the way that I move, I’m a turtle you know
Join me as I crawl by
We can breathe, we can sigh
We can laugh we can cry
We can talk about why
We don’t want to go fast we go slow

I don’t want to go slow I go fast
I’m a rabbit I hop and I jump and I dash
And I’ll go whizzing by
In the blink of an eye
Like a jet-engine airplane that speeds through the sky
I don’t want to go slow I go fast

You don’t want to go slow you go fast
And you may find you’re missing the world you go past
Crickets singing their sound
Golden leaves turning brown
You might find something new that you wouldn’t have found
If you never went slow, only fast

Won’t you slow down
And wait for me?
Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow
Come on slow down
We can share all the new things we see
When we’re slow, here we go, together we’re slow

And other times we can go fast!


As you might have guessed, the lines that spoke to me particularly were, “You don’t want to go slow you go fast/And you may find you’re missing the world you go past/Crickets singing their sound/Golden leaves turning brown/You might find something new that you wouldn’t have found/If you never went slow, only fast.”

So – she put her head on my shoulder, and snuggled into my body. I hugged her back, and held her tight.

I don’t want to go fast.. because I find that I’m missing the world I go past.

Or just a tiny head resting on my shoulder.