15 days, 5 things, day 4

A week or so ago, I came across an album on Spotify by this duet called PMMP. Their music in general isn't something that I'm all that into, but this album was something special. Essentially they'd just made their own versions of known children's songs, and, well, it's awesome. Some were songs I hadn't heard in years and years, that I didn't even remember I knew. Hearing those sort of puts you in a certain mood, and I started thinking about music from when I was a kid and I tried to hunt some of it down on Spotify.

And then I found a song called Paimenpoika.

I don't really know how to put into words how happy I was to find it. I never thought I'd hear it again. My grandmother would sing that song, and for the longest time I thought that it was just something she'd made up, because I never heard it anywhere else. (Except bits and pieces sung by dad, but that's different.) Hearing it again, even if it's sung by a choir, it's like being able to save a little piece of her, healthy and glad and the way she really was. Like I get to keep something of her that was never tainted by the illness.

( Here are the lyrics )

And, on a lighter note:

( Day 4 )