Back last year I agreed to help my dad out with some of his work as he had a period of bad health.
He still runs a private detective agency, and years back we, and my brother worked together in the family business until the recession of the early nineties did for us. But we were all private dicks together!!
Anyway, one of the jobs dad asked me to do was serve some legal process, (documents), on a bloke in Swindon. So, I took Callum with me for the trip, and on the way up he asked to listen to some music and chose the Muse album "The Resistance", and we listened to it all the way there and back, and we had a really good day, a good lunch and a good laugh. Bonding at its best.
One track in particular seemed to resonate with Callum and I at the same time. It surprised me that Callum liked it as it is quite classical. When it came on he became distant and quiet, and he was looking away out of the window, and when I asked him if he was ok he looked back at me, and I saw he was in tears. I asked if he was ok, and he said "Yes", but that the words reminded him of his mum and main family, (me and his mum and sister and dog that we had to let go that he adored).
The only way to explain he said was to listen again and I had to pay attention to the lyrics. So, we listened again and both of us were in tears second time around.
It says a lot of how he feels and always will he says, and I think it says a lot for people in situations that they wish they could change or start over, which is what Callum wishes he could do, and have a mum again and a family. Bless his little heart. The lyrics don't fail to send me to tears when I think of the pain he must feel at times to equate them to his life. Brave and clever boy
The whole album reminds me of that day, and my boy, but this song in particular will be forever him, and we agreed to have it at my funeral, as he says it will remind him of that day together.
For Callum x
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