Trust Me on This: “Abbey Road”

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

"Abbey Road" has become my 4-year-old’s Rosetta Stone. I really have no idea why; I certainly like the album, but I didn’t foist it upon him, or even really encourage him to listen. It doesn’t pop up on our rotation more or less often than anything else. As best I can remember, he liked the album cover. He liked the four guys walking across the street. He liked what they were wearing -- hilarious that one of them had no shoes. He liked that they looked like they were off to somewhere important. He liked that no cars were going to hit them. And so it went into his bedroom, into a little CD player where it has lived for almost a year. He listens to it as he falls asleep. He listens to it when he’s trying to figure out his socks. He quietly sings it to himself when he thinks no one is listening. He can’t figure out why we don’t want to listen to it in perpetuity in the car.

And the album, it seems, is a launching pad for many of the Kid’s great questions.

Can flowers grow underwater?

Well, maybe it’s not a flower garden. Maybe it’s a vegetable garden. Like sea cucumbers.

Sea cucumbers!?

Is he mean because mustard is spicy? I don’t like spicy.

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Trust Me on This: “Abbey Road”