Wonder Lyrics
From distant cities
Just to see me,
Stand over my bed
Disbelieving what they're seeing.
God's own creation,
Snd as far as they see they can offer
No explanation.
Intimate questions,
What confessions;
They reach into my head
To steal the glory
Of my story.
God's own creation,
And as far as they see they can offer
No explanation.
Fate smiled at destiny.
Laughed as she came to my cradle:
"No, this child will be able"
Laughed as my body she lifted:
"No, this child will be gifted.
With love, with patience
And with faith,
She'll make her way"
I'm a challenge
To your balance.
I'm over your heads;
How I confound you
And astound you
to know I must be one of the wonders,
God's own creation,
And as far as you see you can offer me
no explanation.
Fate smiled and destiny.
Laughed as she came to my cradle:
"No, this child will be able"
Laughed as she came to my mother:
"Know this child will not suffer."
Laughed as my body she lifted:
"No this child will be gifted.
With love, with patience,
And with faith,
She'll make her way."
I think that this song is about a person, who like me, was born diabled, but no matter what, like the song says, with "love, patience, and faith she'll make her way". I am a "wonder" because I was born deathly ill and I beat the odds.
We are NOT odd, we are truly gifted.
Why do people make things that are so simple so confusing. Its not about a miraculous recovery from disease. Its not about women specifically.
Its about a child with a handicap. And the refrain explains it all. If you as parents see this child as handicapped, she will be handicapped. If you see her handicap as a gift, she will be gifted. God gives us all we need to live full meaningful lives and what we are missing, he makes up for with other attributes.
Her disabilities will instill the gifts of Love, Patience and Faith. Things many of us struggle to find in our lives becuase we've gotten whatever we needed in life without them. We never learned them. This girl will have these gifts out of necessity and her life will be different from ours, yet fulfilling...so don't cry and feel sorry for her.
Natalie wrote this song for a woman who was born with handicaps that seemed too great to overcome . She was instutionalized at a birth due to her disability. She had overcome the obstacles she had to indure due to the love and support of her adoptive family especially her adoptive mother.
watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZ-v5BW-pQ. She explains why she wrote the song in this video.
watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZ-v5BW-pQ. She explains why she wrote the song in this video.
I sincerely doubt this is a pro-life song. That doesn't sound like Natalie. It is definately an uplifiting song and makes me feel good everytime I hear. So few songs are positive and speak of joyful things. This one just makes your heart melt.
According to Natalie, the song is about special needs children and hwo they can overcome their difficulties, if given a chance. She explains it wondefully here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZ-v5BW-pQ
According to Natalie, in concert in a YouTube video, she says it's about special needs children and how they can overcome their difficulties if given a chance.
During a performance of the song that's available on YouTube, Natalie explains how the song came to be, and that it's about special needs children and how they can overxome their difficultiees - especially if they're loved.
I think this is a song with excellent insight ... and it just makes me feel good. I believe it's about people who are "different" ... born disabled in some ways, but incredibly gifted in others.
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me...
I think of my 5 year old son who has been tested and labelled again and again as aspergers or ADHD, or OD etc etc. Turns out he is brilliant. He is eternally frustrated because he doesn't relate to his peers ( he reads, creates machines from toys and doesn't see how dress up could be fun).. He talks like an adult and doesn't understand why he cannot live like one.. He doesn't fit in with kids, teachers misunderstand his questions and constant testing of his own ideas as defiant rather than creative. One school teacher told me she would "train him" to stop questioning everything-- let's just say, she got more than an earful about that from me. This song may be about something else, but when I hear it, I feel it describes people like him.. And it also describes me. I was born the same way and it wasn't until I was an adult that my unique thought processes and gift for analytical thinking were accepted by anyone but my wonderfully supportive parents.. You see sometimes, if you are gifted and very, very young, you are treated like a freak of nature for being different.
for some strange reason, whenever i hear this song... i think of her as being pregnant with a fish. that's what makes her a wonder.
...um, yeah. it's about autism.