let the song sing you

on thursdays marie-claire picks up polly after school. now that it's spring they go to the park so polly can practice singing. papa said marie-claire can teach her how to sing like a rock star. mama said if they make any money they can split it & polly can use her share to get a cell phone. polly liked that idea a lot because she's the only girl she knows who doesn't have one.

the first thing marie-claire told polly was don't sing the song, let the song sing you.

that made no sense to polly & all she could say was huh-wha?

marie-claire explained that there's a spirit of music that you can summon when you sing & she'll sound like you but it won't be you singing the song it will be the spirit. like in the exorcist? polly asked. polly's never seen that movie & doesn't want to but maddie told her all about it & it sounded real scary espescially when the girl turns her head all the way around.

marie-claire laughed & said kinda but it's not an evil spirit, she's like a fairy princess who lives in the song & she loves to sing but she doesn't have a voice so she has to use your's. anyway if you try to let the fairy princess sing the song for you, you won't be so scared in front of people. because it's not you singing, it's the song singing you.

that kinda made sense to polly but not really. she liked the idea of singing for the fairy princess though.

when polly sang she thought she sounded the same but she really tried to look for the fairy princess in the song.

marie-claire said you can't see her but you can feel her in your heart.