One of my patients played this song today as I was completing a nursing task at work
Like all songs that evoke memories,
I was suddenly transported to 2007, and I was driving my very first Welsh terrier to the animal hospital near Chester
I knew Finlay was dying
And those words
“ If I lay here
If I just lay hereWould you lie with me and just forget the world?”
Finlay Christmas 2005
Have never left me. They summed up our relationship perfectly
Man and dog
And 18 years later, I still am moved to tears by the words.
What song breaks your heart?
Answers here please xxxx
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ReplyDeleteIt’s a lovely song one of my favourites Lee xx
DeleteMy mother’s favourite song is one you love
ReplyDeleteMoon River
We played it at her funeral and there was no a dry eye in the church
Keith
Xx
You know what I think about moon river lol
DeleteI always associate that snow patrol song with the loss of my first beautiful golden retriever Dylan - and like you I find it hard to listen to now - no matter how many further amazing animals who share my life and home since then . I love your blog John.
ReplyDeleteMary Jenkins
Mary k thank you for this comment
DeleteMy mother loved Fiddler too
ReplyDeleteBut her song was Do I Love You ?
It kills me to this day squire xx
Lee
Oh Lee , I get u totally
DeleteFor me it's Take Me Home Country Roads. Went to high school and finished college in WV (a long convoluted story); met my husband there and made some of my best friends ever. And that was THE state song. Remember particularly one night driving with my college pals, it came on the radio, we turned it on full blast and were going down the country road singing that at the top of our lungs. It always takes me back and makes me a weepy mess.
ReplyDeleteFor me, it's Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Company by Rickie Lee Jones - heartbreaking longing
ReplyDeleteI too love this song and I think the first time I heard it was on the radio driving home from work. Other favorites are - If by Bread (the song from our wedding), Somewhere over the Rainbow - the Eva Cassidy version, Dream Weaver by Gary Wright and Hallelujah- the K D Lang version. Now I need to go listen to all 5 and it will be an earworm evening.
ReplyDeleteMoon River. Days of Wine and Roses. Time in a Bottle [Jim Croce]. Somewhere over the Rainbow. But I don't know f it's the songs or the memories.
ReplyDeleteStairway to Heaven. Born to Run/ Born in the USA.
I do like this song from Snow Patrol but from the same time period Linkin Park Shadow of the Day. The travails of my mother's months long illness and passing and this song was on the radio. . . "the sun will set for you". . .
ReplyDelete"Dimming of the Day" by Richard/LindaThompson. Also covered beautifully by Bonnie Raitt. Rips my heart out every time...in a good way. X
ReplyDeleteFinlay looks a teddy bear, a lovely teddy bear.
ReplyDeleteMy song is "Christmas In The Trenches", always makes me cry. Reminds me what a waste of lives wars are.
Finlay was such a dear and gorgeous boy.
ReplyDeleteElbow's "One Day Like This". Because of grief, and for hope.
No song, but I do remember sitting by my lovely cat Freddie as he went to sleep, never to wake. I'm so pleased that I stayed with him as he left us. It still makes me emotional.
ReplyDelete"At last" by Etta James, haunting and beautiful. Hugs from Ro (n.w. Italy).
ReplyDeleteQuite a few by Willie Nelson...he describes life just so.
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