JayJay's First Ear-Worm

"Be quiet!" five-year-old JayJay said as he came down the stairs. "I'm listening to my brain sing."

I laughed and asked him, "Your brain is singing?"

"Yep," he answered. He wandered around for a minute and then sat down on the couch by me. After a moment, he suddenly blurted, "Don't get too close!"

Amused, I asked, "Was that a part of your brain song?"

"Yes," he said.

"Sing it again," I said.

"Just a minute," he replied. "I have to wait until it gets to it again." Then after a while he repeated, "Don't get too close! Don't get too close!"

I smiled to myself while I browsed Facebook. Suddenly, something bumped into the side of my head. It was JayJay. With his forehead pressed against my ear, he said, "Here. You can listen to my brain. Do you hear it?"

"Yes," I pretended, trying not to burst out laughing.

"It's a good song, huh?" he said. "Do you like it?"

"Yes," I said. "It's an awesome song!"

"Dad," he said. JayJay got up from the couch and went to my man who was sitting in the rocking recliner. He pressed his head against my man's ear. "Do you like my brain song?"

"Yeah," said my man.

"It's a rock song," said JayJay. Then he sang, "Don't get too close! Don't get too close!" over and over again.

Twenty minutes later he approached me again. "Mom, I want you to listen to the music with me." He pressed his head against mine, ear to ear this time. "Listen until it gets to another one," he instructed. He waited and waited with his head against mine for five minutes.

"What song is this called?" he asked me.

"I don't know."

"Dad, what song is this?"

My man didn't know either. Finally JayJay said, "We're going to stop now because the song is ending."

But we were really curious. What song was he hearing in his brain? My man looked for songs titled "Don't Get Too Close" on iTunes. He played two of them for JayJay. No luck. Neither song was the one he was hearing. So I searched Google for lyrics that contained the line. The first one to come up was "Demons" by Imagine Dragons. We just happened to go to an Imagine Dragons concert recently and their music is all over the radio. So we played the song.

"This is it! This is the song!" said JayJay. "Mom, do you know what my favorite part is in that rockstar song?"

"What part?" I asked.

"Don't get too close!" he sang.

"I can tell," I answered.

"That's my favorite part," he said, "but I like all of the parts."

He's got one serious ear-worm! I'm glad the mystery is solved and what a great song to be playing in his head over and over.