Why I will listen to it tonight

Hey, Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

Hey, Jude, don't be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better.

And any time you feel the pain, hey, Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders
Well don't you know that its a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder

Hey, Jude! Don't let me down
You have found her, now go and get her
Remember, to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in, hey, Jude, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you, hey, Jude,
You'll do, the movement you need is on your shoulder

Hey, Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

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Woody Allen once said that when he felt sad or in stress, he would watch Marx Brothers movies. And I can understand that feeling. When things are strange, when uncertainty hits, one needs a place, a movie, a song to go to that will give you comfort.

In these days, when things in my life could change in an instant, I know where I am going.To a song. To a tune that has always been there for me. Through good times and especially bad times. A song that talks to me about letting go, about not worrying so much and take a bad situation and turn it into something better. I can find no book, no poem, no movie that can do that to me as perfectly as "Hey Jude". Maybe it's the simpleness of the lyrics, maybe it's the sad but at the same time joyful melody.

Tonight I'll go home and hear it again. And, for a while, everything will be alright.
And I will see that there's no sense in carrying the world on my shoulder. And I will sing along with the "na, na, na" section. And I will thank Paul McCartney for writing it. And I will be happy as hell.