Wunderkind

This song plays during the credits of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and appears on the soundtrack. Specially written for the film, it functions both as Lucy's theme song and the anthem of someone new to the numinous, entranced with the beyond, with the place where fantasy meets supernatural reality.

I do love this song, but saying much more than that would cheapen it. Suffice it to say that I have my own wardrobe and my own Narnia, places I see shadows of in my head that I believe will one day be fully revealed. Now we see through a glass darkly... It is no shallowness, no frivolous child's fantasy to seek this "deeper wonderment." Perhaps it is for the poets and artists and composers to see more clearly, but I think everyone carries a bit of it in them. That is, if they haven't completely trampled the child, the wunderkind, that lives inside them. May our theological profundity always be tempered with a healthy wonder, a divine curiosity and vision. May Narnia's virgin snow always lie on the other side of the common wardrobe.

Wunderkind
by Alanis Morissette

Oh, perilous place walk backwards toward you
Blink disbelieving eyes chilled to the bone
Most visibly brave, no apprehended bloom
First to take this foot to virgin snow

I am magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment
I am a wunderkind, ohh oh oh
And I live the envelope pushed far enough to believe this
I am a princess on the way to my throne

Destined to serve, destined to roam

Oh, ominous place spellbound and un-child-proofed
My least favorite shelter bear alone
Compatriots in face, they’d cringe if I told you
Our best back pocket secret, our bond full blown

And I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment
I am a wunderkind, ohh oh oh
And I am pioneer naïve enough to believe this
I am a princess on the way to my throne

Destined to seek, destined to know

Most beautiful place reborn and blown off roof
My view about-face whether great will be done

And I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment
I am a wunderkind, ohh oh oh
I am a groundbreaker naïve enough to believe this
I am a princess on the way to my throne

And I am a magnet for all kinds of deeper wonderment
I am a wunderkind, ohh oh oh
I am a Joan of Arc and smart enough to believe this
I am a princess on the way to my throne

Destined to reign, destined to roam
Destined to reign, destined to roam