There’s a lovely song, You’ve Got a Friend in Me, by Randy Newman that always makes me smile when I hear it. Newman’s warm, ‘guy next door’ voice doesn’t hurt a thing. It shines with natural warmth, and the words are just so reassuring – you have to smile every time you hear it.
You’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got troubles, and I’ve got ’em too
There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you
We stick together and see it through
‘Cause you’ve got a friend in me
You’ve got a friend in me
It’s every good neighbor you say ‘Hi’ to over a fence or going out to get the mail in the afternoon, when you see someone trying to pick a turtle up off a busy road, and you make sure traffic comes to a crawl and stops behind you so they both get to the side of the road safely. And you wave at each other, smiling.
It’s the face when a tornado or…
