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?

Ugh... Pink's "Just Like a Pill" always reminds me of my obnoxious pain medicine-seeking patients.

"I can't stay on your life support, there's a

shortage in the switch,

I can't stay on your morphine, cuz its making me

itch

I said I tried to call the nurse again but shes

being a little *****,

I think I'll get outta here, where I can

Run just as fast as I can

To the middle of nowhere

To the middle of my frustrated fears

And I swear you're just like a pill

Instead of makin' me better, you keep makin' me

ill

You keep makin' me ill"

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTAC, Critical Care.

Don't Wait For Me - Ryan Bingham

"Don't you wait for me

I've many miles to go

Don't wait for me

I have nothing left to show

Don't wait for me

Wonderin' what is wrong

Don't wait for me

I'll catch up at the break of dawn"

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"The first cut is the deepest" Rod Stuart

'The Drugs Dont Work' (cant remember artist - sorry)

Another day in paradise - phil collins

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The bitterist pill is hard to swallow - Paul Weller

Jagged little pill _ Alanis Morissette

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Specializes in Ante-Intra-Postpartum, Post Gyne.

six weeks in, she was three weeks late...

yeah these days the rabbit doesn't die

you just sit around waiting on two pink lines

praying that fate is on your side

sitting around waiting on two pink lines

sitting around waiting on two pink lines

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Sorry its me again Just remembered this one

.....

an oldie but a goodie..................

wait for it................

"Why does it hurt when I pee/" by the one and only Mr Frank Zappa!!!

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Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).

"Goin' Out of My Head," Little Anthony and the Imperials. Could be me or the patients on any given day.

Seconding the many votes for "Comfortably Numb" - especially as you're pushing Narcan on your third OD'd junkie of the night. "Okay, it's just a little pinprick - there'll be no more high, but you may feel a little sick..."

"Respect," Aretha Franklin. Self-explanatory.

"Night Fever," Bee Gees. When it's 0130 on a Saturday and the Department is just starting to get slammed...

"Poison," Bell Biv DeVoe. "All right, sir, you ingested how much of what and how long ago?"

"Goodnight My Angel," Billy Joel. As you're praying for the Ativan to kick in on the anxious, insomniac LOL who's been alternating between the call bell and the bed-exit alarm every fifteen seconds...

"Nightingale," Carole King. Just the title is always good for a big grin.

"What Is This Feeling," Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Every department has at least one MD everyone loves to hate. "Loathing! Un-adulterated loathing!"

"Tourniquet," Evanescence. "Major trauma incoming, ETA seven minutes..."

More to come! :cool:

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I've been working on a version of Dave Matthews Band's "Ants Marching" about wandering dementia residents.

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Specializes in PICU/Pedi.

There's a song by an artist named Sia called "Breathe Me" that reminds me of nursing because I associate it with my daughters when they were in NICU, and also of my young nephew when he was having a brain tumor removed:

"Be my friend, hold me, wrap me up, unfold me, I am small and needy, warm me up and breathe me..."

It just sounds to me like something a baby or child might say to a nurse.

Any of you who watched "Six Feet Under" on HBO will know that song because it's the one they played at the very end of the last episode of the final season.

Another one is by A Perfect Circle. It's called "The Nurse Who Loved Me", and it also reminds me of my kids being in NICU. But if you listen to the lyrics, it sounds more like a nurse in a psych setting!

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Specializes in PICU/Pedi.

After reading through some of these, I thought of the Aimee Mann song, "Save Me":

"Like Peter Pan or Superman, you will come to save me, C'mon and save me, if you could save me from the ranks of the freaks that suspect they could never love anyone"

Probably some emphasis needed on the part about being saved from the freaks :lol2: .

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Pink Floyd's Take Up Thy Stethoscope & Walk

Even thought it's starts with "Doctor doctor" & he's singing to the doctor.

Im in bed

Achin head

Gold is lead

Choke on bread

Underfed

Gold is lead

Jesus bled

Pain is red

Are goon

Grow go

Greasy spoon

You swoon

June bloom

Music seems to help the pain

Seems to cultivate the brain.

Doctor kindly tell your wife that

Im alive - flowers thrive - realize - realize

Realize.

YAY for Floyd Fans!! :w00t::lol2: :yeah:

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Specializes in PICU/Pedi.

And for the drug seekers, I bequeath you "Please please please let me get what I want" by the Smiths:

Good times for a change, see the luck I've had would make a good man turn bad; So please, please, please, let me, let me, let me, let me get what I want this time.

Haven't had a dream in a long time, See, the life I've had could make a good man bad; So for once in my life, let me get what I want; Lord knows it would be the first time, Lord knows it would be the first time.

Also by the Smiths, for ICU : "Girlfriend in a Coma":

Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know it's serious...Do you really think she'll pull through, do you really think she'll pull through?

"Panic" by The Smiths might be a good, upbeat choice for codes. ;)

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