Mom's Song

After a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease and some serious injuries from a fall, which required stitches, x-rays and scans, my mom died the end of last month.  I am now an orphan.  While her death had been expected, even hoped for, to end the indignity Alzheimer's inflicts upon a person, her death was still abrupt.  I hope you can understand this because I cannot explain it.

Most of you know that I rewrite songs.  I change lyrics to make songs into prayers, to make them pertinent to sobriety or to make them personal for me.  Here is the song I rewrote for my mom.  I sang it at her funeral. My changes are in italics.


The End Of The World  by Skeeter Davis

Why does the sun go on shining
Why does the sea rush to shore
Don't they know it's the end of the world
'Cause you don't live here any more

Why do the birds go on singing
Why do the stars glow above
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when you left this life

I wake up in the morning and I wonder
How every thing's the same as it was
I can't understand, no I can't understand
How life goes on the way it does

Why does my heart go on beating
Why do these eyes of mine cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when I said goodbye

Why do our hearts go on beating
Why do these eyes of ours cry
Don't they know it's the end of the world
It ended when we said..... Goodbye.

Have a good and sober day.