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?

"Can't get the stink off

He's been hanging round for days

Comes like a comet

Suckered you but not your friends

One day he'll get to you

Teach you how to be a holy cow

You do it to yourself you do

And that's what really hurts is

You do it to yourself just you

You and no-one else

You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself"

radiohead-'just'

:banghead:

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Specializes in floor to ICU.

Lynyrd Skynyrd:

Ooh, that smell

Can't you smell that smell?

Ooh, that smell

The smell of death surrounds you, yeah

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Specializes in PACU, CARDIAC ICU, TRAUMA, SICU, LTC.

"I want to be sedated," by the Ramones..

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Thinking of Radiohead... I wonder how many pt's should be thinking,

"I'm a freak... I'm a weirdo... what the h*ll am I doing here - I don't belong here, I don't belong here..." :)

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Specializes in Oncology.

"Innocent", by Our Lady Peace:

Tina's losing faith in what she knows

Hates her music

Hates all of her clothes

Thinks of surgery and a new nose

Every calorie is a war

And while she wishes she was a dancer

And that she'd never heard of cancer

She wishes God would give her some answers

And make her feel beautiful

I remember feeling low

And I remember losing hope

And I remember all the feelings and the day they stopped

Pink, "Like a Pill"

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

shortage in the switch,

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

itch

I said I tried to call the nurse again but she´s

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

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

ill

You keep makin' me ill

Switchfoot, "Enough to Let Me Go"

Breathe it in and let it go

Every breath you take is not yours to own

It's not yours to hold

Do you love me enough to let me go?

Do you love me enough to let me go?

Do you love me enough to let me go? (yea)

To let me follow through

To let me fall for you, my love

Do you love me enough to let me go?

This song is truly beautiful, and reminds me of all of the patient's familys we talk to encouraging them to withdraw care. Do you love them enough to let them go? Don't you realize they're better off away from here? Don't you get that neither we, nor you ultimately control their breathes?

And for the nightshifters, "This Afternoon" by Nickelback:

'Cause we'll be doing this til 6 in the morning, nothing wrong with going all night long.
Except I change 6 in the morning to 7:30 in the morning.

Tim McGraw, "Live Like You Were Dying"

He said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me

And one moment came that stopped me on a dime

I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays

Talking bout' the options and talking bout' sweet times.

I asked him when it sank in, that this might really be the real end

How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news?

Man what did ya do?

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:monkeydance: I am the unit DJ. I choose all the music that we listen to at night and I have been compiling a list of nursing related songs. So far I have a few and I need more suggestions. (My iPod is 30 gigs so help me out).....

Wow, what an impressive list! Your coworkers must be delighted to have you as the unit DJ. I have to download all these songs.

I'd like to add 2 of my favorites: Coldplay's "Fix you": lights will guide... you home, and I will try to... fix you (the start of a surgery), and "Yellow": your skin... your skin and bones, turn into something beautiful... for you i bleed myself dry (organ and blood donor) :D

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I do not like Billy Ray Cyrus but his "Ain't your dog no more" applies a lot to how you feel sometimes.:twocents:

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You know guys i seen this thread and i had to post. Let me tell you the story behind it and you tell me if it fits the thread. I was working nightshift at this nursing home. It was really still that night. My aids were doing there thing and everyone was quiet. On the walls in front of the residents room is a plack from the family members telling the history of their loved one What they did for a living. If they were in the war. When they got married how many kids grandchildren and so on. Well one night this song came on the radio from a residents room. Now I'm a guy and i really don't care for country music I'll listen to it if its on more like a white noise type thing. I almost cried listening to that song and reading some of the things people wrote. And the song was Allen Jackson's Remember When. Here's the words

Remember when I was young and so were you

and time stood still and love was all we knew

You were the first, so was I

We made love and then you cried

Remember when

Remember when we vowed the vows

and walked the walk

Gave our hearts, made the start, it was hard

We lived and learned, life threw curves

There was joy, there was hurt

Remember when

Remember when old ones died and new were born

And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged

We came together, fell apart

And broke each other's hearts

Remember when

Remember when the sound of little feet

was the music

We danced to week to week

Brought back the love, we found trust

Vowed we'd never give it up

Remember when

Remember when thirty seemed so old

Now lookn' back it's just a steppin' stone

To where we are,

Where we've been

Said we'd do it all again

Remember when

Remember when we said when we turned gray

When the children grow up and move away

We won't be sad, we'll be glad

For all the life we've had

And we'll remember when

I just thought i would post this makes me think of nursing very much. These are my thoughts use them as you wish

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"let me rest in pieces." -Saliva

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Check out the Laryngospasms on youtube.

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"Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N Roses.... I guess I have been feeling a little stressed at work these days. :o

Welcome to the jungle

We've got fun 'n' games

We got everything you want

Honey, we know the names

We are the people that can find

Whatever you may need

If you got the money, honey

We got your disease

[CHORUS:]

Welcome to the jungle

We take it day by day

If you want it you're gonna bleed

But it's the price you pay

And you're a very sexy girl

That's very hard to please

You can taste the bright lights

But you won't get them for free

In the jungle

Welcome to the jungle

Feel my, my, my serpentine

I, I wanna hear you scream

Welcome to the jungle

It gets worse here everyday

Ya learn ta live like an animal

In the jungle where we play

If you got a hunger for what you see

You'll take it eventually

You can have anything you want

But you better not take it from me

[CHORUS]

And when you're high you never

Ever want to come down, so down,

So down, so down, so dooooowwwwwn

YEAH yeah yeah

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"the nurse who loved me" covered by a perfect circle, originally by failure

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