Daisy the music critic

Tonight in the car Daisy and I were listening to our Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome CD, and "The American Land" had just come on. I report the exchange below.

D: Something's missing in this song.

Me (at first suspecting that her father had taught her that any song lacking a heavy metal guitar solo has "something missing," but then deciding to take her seriously): What do you think is missing?

D (after a long pause in which she thinks it over): Giants.

It soon became clear that Daisy felt giants were missing from all the songs on the CD--a fatal flaw if ever there was one. She informed me that every other song we listened to on the CD also needed giants.

Interestingly, she insisted that Bruce was "crying" in several songs that had really upbeat feelings to them. Then she'd say, "Now he's better. The other singers cheered him up."

Then she told me our apartment needs giants as well. I'm not so sure; it's a big apartment by San Francisco standards, but maybe not big enough to house a giant.