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    • CommentAuthorAdmin
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2015
     
    Did anyone see Tim McGraw just sing the song Glenn Campbell wrote when he was first diagnosed? Very, very powerful lyrics. Google the lyrics if you have not heard the song.

    joang
    • CommentAuthorMoon*
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2015 edited
     
    Yes, it is sad in many ways, but encouraging in others.
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    Yes, I just saw it too. I have always loved Glen Campbell. I saw him in June 2012 in the beginnings of his Alz .
    This song brought me go tears. The lyrics ring true. Beautifully sung by Tim..
    • CommentAuthormyrtle*
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2015
     
    I just googled the lyrics and listened to the song. Sorry, I just don't see it. In fact, I think it's creepy.
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    One of the kindest things anyone at the Alzheimer's Center ever said to me was a resident's wife who said, "Don't worry too much about his sadness. He'll reach a point where he won't miss you at all". This took such a load off my mind - I could stand my sadness, but not his. It is still horrific for me to imagine he is sitting there missing me. I loved the fact that Glen Campbell wrote something about the best part being selfishly, I'm not gonna miss you. I thought it was a great way of saying that if he knew what he was missing, life would be unbearable. Anyway, I didn't know anything about this song until I saw Tim McGraw sing it tonight, and it was very moving. And somehow uplifting.
    • CommentAuthorCharlotte
    • CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2015
     
    If you listen to his album Ghost on the Canvas, the songs on there, to me anyway, talk about his dealing with Alzheimer's Disease.
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    Yes, indeed I heard Tim sing it this eve. Powerful!

    Tears streaming down my face and I wasn't sure what he meant with, "I won't miss you at all" - I know I don't have the exact words but something like that

    Wasn't clear what that meant. I found it haunting....but I really wanted to understand.
    • CommentAuthorCharlotte
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2015
     
    I tried to listen to Tim sing it online but it is block due to Oscar copyrights. But here are the words to the song

    I'm still here, but yet I'm gone
    I don't play guitar or sing my songs
    They never defined who I am
    The man that loves you 'til the end

    You're the last person I will love
    You're the last face I will recall
    And best of all, I'm not gonna miss you
    Not gonna miss you

    I'm never gonna hold you like I did
    Or say I love you to the kids
    You're never gonna see it in my eyes
    It's not gonna hurt me when you cry

    I'm never gonna know what you go through
    All the things I say or do
    All the hurt and all the pain
    One thing selfishly remains

    I'm not gonna miss you
    I'm not gonna miss you

    Songwriters
    RAYMOND, JULIAN / CAMPBELL, GLEN



    Read more: Glen Campbell - I'm Not Gonna Miss You Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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    I googled the lyrics, too, and like myrtle found them creepy. Perhaps set to music they come across much differently, but after reading the lyrics I had no desire to hear the song sung.
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    Well, they are kind of creepy, in the same weirdly awful way as the actual experience of having an LO with AD sometimes makes your stomach turn. But for that reason, and the poignancy of the song actually being sung, especially by Glen Campbell, it's an emotionally evocative, if not exactly "sweet," thing.
    • CommentAuthorInJail
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2015
     
    Glenn was a realist and thoroughly understood what his disease was and what it would do to him. After the disease progresses, it is not the patient that suffers it is the people who love them and take the "long goodbye" journey with him. I believe I read somewhere that he wrote the song for his wife because he didn't want her to suffer his disease along with him.
    • CommentAuthorAdmin
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2015
     
    I find the differing responses to the lyrics interesting. I'm just amazed at the insight Glenn Campbell had in order to be able to write that song.

    Personally, I love the song, and cried listening to Tim sing it. I felt that it is something Sid could have written to me if he were a songwriter.

    joang
    • CommentAuthordellmc53
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2015
     
    I am personally glad that my husband does not have to go through the horrible pain of separation. It may be the only blessing that I can think of that he does not hurt like I do emotionally (or if he does it is not apparent). We have loved each other for so long and the thought of him hurting like I do is unbearable. The sadness that simply overtakes me comes like waves in a stormy sea.
    • CommentAuthortexasmom
    • CommentTimeFeb 23rd 2015
     
    I also recommend that anyone that wants to hear the song and didn't last night---google it and listen to the version recorded by Glen Campbell's son. Very beautiful. Like Joan, I find the differing responses to the lyrics interesting but that fact we are having this conversation at all is important---I have always believed you cannot cure a disease if the public cannot have a conversation about it. Between Glen's song, Julianne's win, Eddie Redmain (sp?)'s win and shout out to ALS, it was a pretty good night for having conversations about diseases.
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    Agree, re the version recorded by Glen's son. Really nicely and simply done. Here's a web address: http://theboot.com/shannon-campbell-im-not-gonna-miss-you/
    • CommentAuthorMim
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2015
     
    Thanks Charlotte for writing the lyrics - I really have never heard it, but wondered what the "I'm never gonna miss you" meant. Now I get it. I don't think I find the words creepy exactly, but maybe rather prophetic from the point of view of the one with the disease. I don't think Dan would ever think of things like that, would never express things like that, would not recognize the emotions at all - he never shared very easily & now it seems that he has no emotion of any kind (well, maybe anger at me much of the time!). He simply is not aware of anything having to do with his disease, doesn't even realize he has a disease.