Big Fish & How I Go

The book, Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace has the tagline, "An adventure as big as life itself." The story is in fact about a man's life, and how he is not actually a man, just born that way. He was intended to be a fish, as he ends up becoming. I didn't read this for one of my outside readings, but I was listening to a song the other day titled "How I Go" sung by Yellowcard. I realized that the lyrics almost seem to be written about this book. They are as follows:
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I could tell you the wildest of tales
My friend the giant and traveling sales
Tell you all the times that I failed
The years all behind me the stories exhaled.

And I'm drying out
Crying out
This isn't how I go

I could tell you of a man not so tall
Who said life's a circus and so we are small
Tell you of a that I saw
I froze in the moment and she changed it all

Hurry now
Lay me down
And let these waters Flow, flow

Son I am not everything
You thought that I would be
But every story I have told
Is part of me

Son I leave you now but you have so much more to do
And every story I have told is part of you
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His entire life the main character is trying to make it back to the water. In his final days, according to the description in the text, he is drying out like a fish, and as the lyrics of this song suggest. What's also relevant is that the character in the book attempts traveling sales, participates in a circus, meets a that changes his life, and has a giant for a friend.

This song has given me inspiration that there is another outlet of children's literature in music. Being musically inclined, it's neat to realize that I can turn literature for children into a differnet medium but still capture the meaning.