Song lyrics that remind you of nursing...

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Every so often I'll hear lyrics on songs on the radio that remind me of nursing... Here's a couple of examples I've heard on the radio recently, unfortunately I can't remember who sings either of 'em...:monkeydance:

"I am barely breathing, and I can't find the air..."

"I have become, comfortably numb..."

Anyone got any more?

I apologise in advance for the earworms:

When looking for hard to find veins- Carole King's " You' re no good".

When inserting a Foley- All American Rejects "Dirty little secrets"

Anytime- "if I only had a brain" from the Wizard of Oz.

or "When all our hope is gone, we move along" also All American Rejects.

On good days- "These hands" by Jewel.

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consider the following carcass lyrics:

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[color=#dddddd]vomited anal tract

oral eruption

rectal extroversion...

your vagus implodes, as nausea strikes

savaging your body in terminal retch

violent spasms and decaying enzymes

engulf your throat as you belch

intestinal disturbance, your ileum turns inside-out

your duodenum is thrust up towards your mouth

your pancreas excretes stale septic pus

your whole digestive system is now a sticky mush

rectal vomit in your thorax

retch your anal tract

liquidized oesophagus mixes with bloodied excretion

as you pathetically gasp for breath

the stench of hot faeces scorch your nose

as you violently vomit to death

your intestines are rising, up towards your throat

stale bile escaping through your bloodied nose

your colon digested into acidic slush

your tongue gargling on your dislocated orifice

[solo: grotesque anal disgorgement]

yeah, that pretty much sums up my experience in gi surgery.

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"One Moment in Time", by Whitney Houston...everytime I hear it, I think of being on the stage at my pinning ceremony. I remember the instructor's sitting in the first 2 rows of the auditorium, and when the speaker announced our class, they all stood up first and applauded, followed by the rest of the room. I bawled like a baby! Our class had so many hard times, personal and otherwise. It was nice to see their support, for as hard as they were on some of us going through school, there was a reason for their "madness". I look back on those times, and am thankful they were the way they were. That song still chokes me up.

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Here's a few :

This is the 1st few lines in AFI's "Endlessly, She Said".

"Walked into our world and made

Horrible sounds.

I can still hear them today

(strangely they seem)..."

"The Leaving Song Pt. 2" by AFI

"I saw its birth, I watched it grow

I felt it change me..."

This certainly isn't talking about childbirth in this song, but every time I hear this part I can't help but think of L/D....lol....I'm sure Mr. Davey Havok is speaking of something really deep and profound...but still I think fo a nasty child birth when I hear it!!!:trout: (can you tell I' NOT an L/D nurse...)

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"One Moment in Time", by Whitney Houston...everytime I hear it, I think of being on the stage at my pinning ceremony. I remember the instructor's sitting in the first 2 rows of the auditorium, and when the speaker announced our class, they all stood up first and applauded, followed by the rest of the room. I bawled like a baby! Our class had so many hard times, personal and otherwise. It was nice to see their support, for as hard as they were on some of us going through school, there was a reason for their "madness". I look back on those times, and am thankful they were the way they were. That song still chokes me up.

Funny, but I remember my pinning ceremony everytime I hear "Chariots of Fire." My friend said that her mom graduated from nursing school in the early 80's and that was her pinning ceremony song. We all laughed about it when our class was trying to come up with a song.

The song that we walked in the auditorium to was by Enya. We also had "Hero" by Mariah Carey play at one point. I don't care much for Mariah, but the lyrics apply. As a nurse, I don't really feel like a hero. I'm just a person with the education and technical skills to change lives.

I laughed out loud when someone in the class suggested the Styx song "Come Sail Away." To me the lyrics suggest death, possibly an untimely death. My DH says it's about alien invasion.

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"Trouble Me" Natalie Merchant/10,000 maniacs...beautiful song....

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An old song, We Gotta Get Out of This Place by The Animals.

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Jerry Lee Lewis - "A Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"

Status epilepticus

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Lightning Crashes by Live...kind of sad but sometimes true.

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries.

Her placenta falls to the floor.

The angel opens her eyes.

The confusion sets in,

Before the doctor can even close the door.

Lightning crashes, an old mother dies.

Her intentions fall to the floor.

The angel closes her eyes.

The confusion that was hers,

Belongs now to the baby down the hall.

Oh now feel it coming back again.

Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind.

Forces pulling from the center of the earth again.

I can feel it.

Lightning crashes, a new mother cries.

This moment she's been waiting for.

The angel opens her eyes.

Pale blue colored iris.

Presents the circle and puts the glory out to hide, hide.

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i'm a fool to do your dirty work - steely dan

the end - the doors

how to save a life - the fray

one - metallica

comfortably numb - pink floyd (best song ever written)

four cornered room - w.a.r.

baby love - supremes

babe - styx

it ends tonight - all american rejects

someone saved my life tonight - elton john

shiny happy people - r.e.m.

head games - foreigner

jaded - aerosmith

whipping post - allman brothers

so cold - breaking benjamin

surrender - cheap trick

fix you - coldplay

radium eyes - count zero

let the bodies hit the floor - drowning pool

long time gone - crosby, stills, nash, and young

blackbird - beatles (reminds me of an episode of er)

high enough - damn yankees

golden years - david bowie

people are strange - doors

five to one - doors (i think of this when doing cpr b/c the

ratio of compressions to breaths used to be 5-1)

she's gone - hall and oates

gimme back my bullets - lynyrd skynyrd

that smell - lynyrd skynyrd

pain - three days grace (i hate this song)

fly to the angels - slaughter

night shift - can't remember if it's the commodores or

earth, wind, and fire - i think the commodores

vasoline - stone temple pilots

glycerine - bush

owner of a lonely heart - yes

live like you were dying - tim mcgraw

everybody hurts - r.e.m.

stayin alive - beegees

live and let die - guns and roses

manic monday - the bangles

closer to the heart - rush

every breath you take - the police

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old song- don't remember any details:

it keeps you running!

i think that was michael mcdonald.;)

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Old song- don't remember any details:

It keeps you running!

The Doobie Brothers... ;)

(Michael McDonald was in that band before he went solo)

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