I am inclined to connect this song with its associated imagery in Curious George. (The song is from the movie's soundtrack.) WIthin the context of the movie, the song captures a moment when the Man with the Yellow Hat stops railing against all the things in his life that aren't going the way he presupposed they should (like, he's not supposed to have a monkey to deal with!), and instead looks at George and really realizes that what he's got--the love and trust of an innocent friend--is what he has really always needed. Yeah, kinda deep for a kid's movie about a monkey, but there's actually a lot going on in that film. See it if you haven't. Seriously. :)
"Maybe it's up in the stars" etc. seems to me a reference to the search for "heaven", "happiness", "joy", or whatever it is we think will make us happy. The point of the song is that if we are seeking happiness, then we should look at the people already in our lives, that heaven isn't some faraway impossibility or hidden secret, but rather is just love for the people around us. Too often we plumb our pasts or yearn for some particular future, thinking that somehow we're missing our chance, when really, just being here, in this place, now, today, with another person already in our life--that is our destiny. And it's all the destiny we need.
I am inclined to connect this song with its associated imagery in Curious George. (The song is from the movie's soundtrack.) WIthin the context of the movie, the song captures a moment when the Man with the Yellow Hat stops railing against all the things in his life that aren't going the way he presupposed they should (like, he's not supposed to have a monkey to deal with!), and instead looks at George and really realizes that what he's got--the love and trust of an innocent friend--is what he has really always needed. Yeah, kinda deep for a kid's movie about a monkey, but there's actually a lot going on in that film. See it if you haven't. Seriously. :)
"Maybe it's up in the stars" etc. seems to me a reference to the search for "heaven", "happiness", "joy", or whatever it is we think will make us happy. The point of the song is that if we are seeking happiness, then we should look at the people already in our lives, that heaven isn't some faraway impossibility or hidden secret, but rather is just love for the people around us. Too often we plumb our pasts or yearn for some particular future, thinking that somehow we're missing our chance, when really, just being here, in this place, now, today, with another person already in our life--that is our destiny. And it's all the destiny we need.