Theme songs for the caregiver.

I like the idea of Dark side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and I won't back down by Tom Petty. Both are good songs for us.

Ok one more.....and I am done I swear!
When we driving round making arangments for dad, I looked over and my rock n roll hating mother (dimetia now) let her guard down and was tapping her toes and humming to Greenday's Novocaine....We had just bought the cd American Idiot, I popped it in and never had heard it before
It became our themesong along with "wake me up when september ends"
WE listened over n over n over n over!!!! It got me thru the whole funeral and beyond!!!

That song turned dads death, a awful experience, into a joyful one in a million memory and was sign #2 in the process that there is a higher power!!!

ok last one. This one is very special to me and I wanted to share it cause it is such a hauntingly beautiful song and fits so appropriately with the day I am having! It is by Andrea Bocelli-Time to say Goodbye!! This song was already a fav of mom n I and "Miraculously" was playing in the moments dad left us...I remember we were down to the wire that nite and it came on and mom n I just sang and told dad it is OK, just go..and he did!!!! NO SHIT...you cannot make this stuff up!!!! Music is POWERFUL!

Please look that one up for DAD today!!!

Ok Tom Petty's I wont back down! I freaking love that song!!!

"you can stand me up at the gates of hell and I wont back down"

Oh, jujubean-- I don't feel so bad about my fish now!

Jack Russell Terrorist -hee hee

I got a Jack Russel Terrorist names Ziggy!
Ziggy's Love is my Religion.....that is another song I go to for a smile!

I had to tell ya I posted yesterday on "grossed out" about my mom's cockatiel I cooked!! she wanted me to train him, he was on my shoulder while cooking, spooked n hit the rangetop slide down plop into spaghetti noodles...it was awful but we laff now, what a way to go!!!

yaya- Oh, yeah-JC Superstar!! --I actually wondered about that later in the night as I was looking for it on my Kindle Fire music store!! But I could not find it with JC either!!
From Les Mis- "I Dreamed a Dream" is good for days when you just want to mope. The last stanza is a real zinger---
"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed"
:o(

(Love Bob Marley, BTW! I had two gold fish in college -Bob and Ziggy - unfortunately I put them by the window sill on a hot day and cooked them. What can I say?--I was a freshmen. )

Yaya....right on! I thought that same thing yesterday when cooking dinner..."of course there is Bob, cant go wrong with a Lil Reggae" ...I was singing three lil birds to myself.
I love this post cuz it is making me think! I mentioned earlier somewhere music was a big part of my life before mom, and now I don't even have time or energy to put together a playlist etc..we have no radio out in country anymore!
So i kept thinking bout this headline and all my go to songs from days back and that's when Bob came in...of course, you cant hardly be sad to a reggae song even if it is!!! and his message!

I gotta agree with sharymarie..."they're comong to take me away" has to be in the top ten! (been singing that one myself this morning)
How about a little reggae/Bob Marley? This one always helps lift me up when I get those caregiving blues...

"Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', ("This is my message to you-ou-ou:")

Singin': "Don't worry 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry (don't worry) 'bout a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!"

Rise up this mornin',
Smiled with the risin' sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin', "This is my message to you-ou-ou:"

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don't worry!"
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing" - I won't worry!
"'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."

Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right" - I won't worry!
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right."
Singin': "Don't worry about a thing, oh no!
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right!

Mishka - I love "everything's alright" too - great song! (it's from Jesus Christ Superstar though, not Godspell...easy to mix them up though!)

i have my flag on the dark side of the moon. squatters rights, please go away and dont step on my mushrooms..

"They're Coming To Take Me Away, Hey Hey", has been my theme for some time now. That is my story and I'm sticking to it, Hey Hey!!

oh clockwork orange, had seen that on a holloween list of top creepy movie's of all time...I netflixed it and apparently my situation or old age has made me adverse to creepiness and violence cuz I just plain old don't enjoy a good scary movie anymore I think it was "Saw" that turned me...that clown faced talking thing scared the crap outta me. and not been ok since but I digress...

I am curious bout some of these songs now too...will check em out manana!!

Or 'Dark Side of the Moon', by Pink Floyd.... ya, this is the one....

Take This Job and Shove It....... some C and W, Or the theme music from 'Clockwork Orange"......

I am more into fiction books that I am into music/movies. I don't know most of these songs you all are mentioning. I just now listened on YouTube..Calling all Angels (Yes! Thumbs Up!!!) ...Don Quixote but the wordngs weren't very clear to me... I never heard of "Tthey're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Ha by Napoleon...just watched that. (Yes! Thumbs Up!! I even giggled on some parts.)...Darn, I have to go visit father at the hospital. I will continue when I get back home....

Haha Cap'n--better than Captain and Tenielle! ( sorry Jujubean-was it you who got stuck on it?) ---Ooooo-just saw your name in that--hee hee. A little different than Capnhardass!

I sing to my girl Everything's Alright from Godspell-the Mary Magdalene part--

",Try not to get worried
Try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you
(oh) Don't you know
Everything's all right
Yes everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight"

Reminds me of your song, Book

sonnuvabitch mishka,
youve got me listening to an entire black sabbath album on you tube. the musical clarity is shocking.. mmmmm

lol, ' jesus take the wheel "
had an old friend once who was 80 yrs old at the time, junkyard propriator. in his old age he didnt drive (or even see) worth a shit . he had a front license plate that proclaimed jesus was his copilot. my sons and i always mused how jesus surely bailed years ago..

well theres always " welcome to my nightmare" thats al cooper too..

Ok I so I go to watch the Jesus..wheel video and there is an old couple in there....sharing my same emotion I am positive...I am balling like a baby here!!!
My li'l Ziggy always comes thru in a clutch..tho, he came over to lick away my tears, from a dead sleep!!
I am telling you tho music is powerful....and healing and so are pets!!!

@ mishka,
paranoia is a devastating state of mind, i deal with it sometimes. it would probably get better if id stop doing illegal stuff but NO DEAL..

AND "going banana's" please Mishka that song made me banana's .......la la la la la la banana!!!! Ha ha ha!!!

Book, that made me think of one....
Few weeks ago when I was so low I heard

Carrie Underwoods "Jesus take the wheel"

Jesus take the wheel
Take it from my hands
Cause I can't do this all on my own
I'm letting go
So give me one more chance
To save me from this road I'm on
Jesus take the wheel

We were not raised with the church as well but I am exploring my spirituality. The message moved me deeply!!

When I was caring for both bedridden parents, full-time job, and take over my shift when I get home, I was soooo exhausted. I was beginning to black out, weave, etc.. I am Not Religious..that kind of flew out the door when my caregiving days started.

I found myself humming/singing over and over the song by Cristy Lane - One Day at a Time, Sweet Jesus. It was just the Words helped me to concentrate on just TODAY and not think of the tomorrows.

I'm only human, I'm just a woman.
Help me believe in what I could be
And all that I am.
Show me the stairway, I have to climb.
Lord for my sake, teach me to take
One day at a time.

Chorus:
One day at a time sweet Jesus
That's all I'm asking from you.
Just give me the strength
To do everyday what I have to do.
Yesterday's gone sweet Jesus
And tomorrow may never be mine.
Lord help me today, show me the way
One day at a time.

just an observation...if they where to delete it for the comment wouldn't they delete the comment too....It might be a problem with links, i'm no expert, I just know I kept trying to copy a link here and thought I had it..then it would disappear ???maybe that??? I liked that FRYE one!

saps!! the first was the balad of dwight frye and the second was vengeance is mine, both by alice cooper . ( of course ). bitchin hard rock, both of em..

Cap'n -what was it? Our links got deleted. I was thinking -for the poor souls with dementia The Kinks song -The Destroyer---here is a verse--

Doctor, Doctor help me please, I know you'll understand
There's a time device inside of me, I'm a self-destructin' man
There's a red, under my bed
And there's a little green man in my head
And he said, "you're not goin' crazy, you're just a bit sad
'Cause there's a man in ya, gnawin' ya, tearin' ya into two."

Silly boy ya' self-destroyer.
Paranoia, the destroyer

Self-destroyer, wreck your health
Destroy friends, destroy yourself
The time device of self-destruction
Light the fuse and start eruption

(Yea, it goes like this, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(Here's to paranoia)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(Hey hey, here it goes)
Paranoia, the destroyer
(And it goes like this)

Paranoia, the destroyer

How about "Dead skunk in the middle of the road"...? hahaha

for the poor persecuted, delusional dementia patient.