Today, I was on my way to class, and I felt the warm sun on my face a bit, which made me walk more in the light than I had been. Once in the light, I had to squint a bit, because the sun was too bright for my sun-starved winter eyes. But when I looked in the air at the brightness, I saw something floating. It was a red balloon. One single red balloon, floating.
When I was young and in school, our teacher showed us a movie called “The Red Balloon“, which was this movie without words about a boy and his balloon, and the people who wanted to take it. Also, the balloon and him have some strange connection that makes it follow him around. This is all by memory, I haven’t watched the video for 20 years.
Anyways, I was vaguely reminded that I wrote a song about that balloon in 2001; a rap song, written for a rap group I was in called “The Endless Attic.” Here is the song:
I just spent a few hours updating my music page. Now the playlists are snazzy. Check it out!