Story Behind The Song
This scene happens daily in hospitals. When it's someone else, it's easy to suggest a course of action. When it's ourselves, even though we may know the answer, it isn't easy actually doing it.
Song Description
Under suggestion and looks from the hospital statt, a man contemplates whether he should agree to let his dying father go peacefully.
| Song Length |
3:08 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, Pop - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Moving, Troubled |
Subject |
Father, Hospitals |
| Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
Don?t Like Playing God
Tired resident and somber nurse,
Sunken faces, they had come to say the worst,
Of slipped disks, malignant pain,
Hardly a life remains,
Reflecting, I look up and meet their eyes.
But I don?t like playing God,
When they look to me for the nod,
Morphine they say
Is a peaceful way to go.
Will I have to let him pass,
To see my mom at last,
With her arms open wide,
Will she give me the nod?
I don?t like, I don?t like playing God.
Flashback to comic books he?d bring to me,
From his suitcase, how happy I would be,
Now swallowing is just a chore,
Needs to cough up even more,
He has no desire to stay around.
There?s no escaping this responsibility,
All the family now looks to me.