KU Medical Center
Returning to Together
Artist: Michael G. Abraham, MD, FAHA, Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Radiology
Category: Music
Full video is at: youtu.be/6EjOZ0PJ_LM?rel=0
I wrote this song after watching a solo, online live performance by Dave Matthews. It was a new song of his and he was expressing his own views on the pandemic. While watching it in April, I thought of how the pandemic affected us. At first everything was so new, and the lockdown was in effect. I, along with most other people, have never experienced a lock down. Though it was difficult, I realized that my wife and I could spend more time at home with each other and with our 2 young boys. We are both physicians at KUMC so time with them can be limited. With all my elective surgeries cancelled, I was able to spend more time with my family. It was frustrating at first to have such restriction but the more time in the restriction, I realized that this is ideally how it should be - returning home and returning to together.
Lyrics:
Together with you
Together with me
Together it’s we.
Crowded in an uncrowded house
Learning this new rhythm
That should not be so new
That should not be so foreign.
It is not easy, it is the in between
Of what maybe it should be.
It seems it feels it vibes off kilter
Off the balance that we once knew.
But maybe possibly just a little we are
Returning home.
To where the ceremony first began.
Is there a map, or maybe a nap to remember.
The original reality of what made you and me and we.
Let us embrace, the difficulty of this time.
Let us not shy away or close our eyes.
Grab your glass, take the reigns, salud the [mighty] sun.
Run fast, run slow, run in between the there and now.
This is where, we, you and me,
Come back to each other.
Tempers, tantrums, tickles, tumbles, in time.
This is where the red autumn leaf meets the air.
Where the rain drop first kisses the sky’s breath.
Sunny side up days and alphabet soup nights.
Make believes and swinging jungle trips.
We fly to the sky only to stay up again.
We cannot let this time flash before our eyes,
We cannot let these breaths be to blow off dust.
Let us embrace, the difficulty of this time.
Let us not shy away or close our eyes.
Grab your glass, take the reigns, salud the [mighty] sun.
Run fast, run slow, run in between the there and now.
This is where, we, you and me,
Come back to each other.
Returning to Together
Artist: Michael G. Abraham, MD, FAHA, Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology and Radiology
Category: Music
Full video is at: youtu.be/6EjOZ0PJ_LM?rel=0
I wrote this song after watching a solo, online live performance by Dave Matthews. It was a new song of his and he was expressing his own views on the pandemic. While watching it in April, I thought of how the pandemic affected us. At first everything was so new, and the lockdown was in effect. I, along with most other people, have never experienced a lock down. Though it was difficult, I realized that my wife and I could spend more time at home with each other and with our 2 young boys. We are both physicians at KUMC so time with them can be limited. With all my elective surgeries cancelled, I was able to spend more time with my family. It was frustrating at first to have such restriction but the more time in the restriction, I realized that this is ideally how it should be - returning home and returning to together.
Lyrics:
Together with you
Together with me
Together it’s we.
Crowded in an uncrowded house
Learning this new rhythm
That should not be so new
That should not be so foreign.
It is not easy, it is the in between
Of what maybe it should be.
It seems it feels it vibes off kilter
Off the balance that we once knew.
But maybe possibly just a little we are
Returning home.
To where the ceremony first began.
Is there a map, or maybe a nap to remember.
The original reality of what made you and me and we.
Let us embrace, the difficulty of this time.
Let us not shy away or close our eyes.
Grab your glass, take the reigns, salud the [mighty] sun.
Run fast, run slow, run in between the there and now.
This is where, we, you and me,
Come back to each other.
Tempers, tantrums, tickles, tumbles, in time.
This is where the red autumn leaf meets the air.
Where the rain drop first kisses the sky’s breath.
Sunny side up days and alphabet soup nights.
Make believes and swinging jungle trips.
We fly to the sky only to stay up again.
We cannot let this time flash before our eyes,
We cannot let these breaths be to blow off dust.
Let us embrace, the difficulty of this time.
Let us not shy away or close our eyes.
Grab your glass, take the reigns, salud the [mighty] sun.
Run fast, run slow, run in between the there and now.
This is where, we, you and me,
Come back to each other.