"She remebers the first time, he forgot who she was."

Kristoff Krane - Miracle

This song gets to me everytime. Sometimes I'll be at driving home from work or school and this song will come up on my iPod and sometimes I have to fight back the tears. It's such a sweet song about this wife, who's husband has alzheimer, and how it's affected their family.

"She remebers the first time, he forgot who she was."

Verse 1
She sits down on the sofa
Opens up an old photo album filled with pictures and post cards.
Sent from Fred in World War 2-
The tears rush down her head with no where to run to.

Her grandson tugs her arm and asks her
"Grandma what’s wrong? What happened to grandpa?-"
The thump in her throat still wont move
and the river between her eyes starts to flow faster

15 when they met in a small town-on the outskirts of a city that was worn down
she recalls climbing up that hill to catch a glimpse of the world from an outside perspective

Fred always said that he would love to teach her how to fly, but he was scared to death of what her dad would do if she died-so he held her and never let go and they fell deep in love with each other

(The family situation and their history is established. Her grandson asks her what's wrong with Grandpa and she can't stop crying. That line kills me! I also love the 2nd part of the 1st verse, where Fred, the husband w/ Alzheimer, wants to show his wife the world and make her dreams come true, but loves her too much to take any risk.)

CHORUS
LIFE IS BUT A MIRACLE
ALL YOU KNOW IF FADING SLOW
YOU NEVER KNOW JUST WHAT YOU HAVE
UNTIL ITS GONE OVER THE RAINBOW
HE’LL GET BETTER YES HE WILL
HE’LL GET BETTER IF HE’S LOVED-
SHE REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME
HE FORGOT WHO SHE WAS

(Those last two lines kill me! "She remembers the first time, he forgot who she was." This song hits close to me because my Grandmother, on my mom's side, has Alzheimer and she constantly forgets who Pajjar and I are and who my parents are.)

VERSE 2
10 hours a day at the nursing home
Fred laid in bed—stayed fed through tubes while she would read him poems
he always told her courage is to face your fears—even though he hadn’t recognized her aging face for years-

She didn’t give in though—she knew that even though—he had a hole in his brain—it wasn’t safe for him to stay alone
And every day she noticed all the roses in the vase withering away and hoped and prayed that they would maybe grow

("He had a hole in his brain," man... what a odd but realistic way to explain Alzheimer. The roses... man, that's good symbolizim.)

CHORUS
LIFE IS BUT A MIRACLE
ALL YOU KNOW IF FADING SLOW
YOU NEVER KNOW JUST WHAT YOU HAVE
UNTIL ITS GONE OVER THE RAINBOW
HE’LL GET BETTER YES HE WILL
HE’LL GET BETTER IF HE’S LOVED-
SHE REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME
HE FORGOT WHO SHE WAS

VERSE 3
And as her grandson looked up at her—she couldn’t help to ignore her daughter and son in law in the other room arguing about—something that didn’t matter—

She told em not to move and picked up her husbands glasses—try them on she said…...
She said Why? because Id like to share with you how your father liked to look at life her—Daughter stubborn and sad held the glasses in her hand—so she sat them all down on the couch and this is what she said.

Your father probly would of liked for me to tell you that the night that you were born was the night that he put down the bottle and if you ever get in a fight with someone you love—know that if they died before apology you wouldn’ live to see tommorow—

Never know whats gonna come—so when it goes it goes its hard to cope
Never run from what you know controls emotional reactions—when you take your anger out on someone else—it’s only an escape from looking inside of yourself and taking them for granted.

(The 3rd verse is my favorite verse. Especially the part about how the night Fred's daughter was born was the night he quit drinking. Anger is an escape from looking inside of yourself.)

CHORUS
LIFE IS BUT A MIRACLE
ALL YOU KNOW IF FADING SLOW
YOU NEVER KNOW JUST WHAT YOU HAVE
UNTIL ITS GONE OVER THE RAINBOW
HE’LL GET BETTER YES HE WILL
HE’LL GET BETTER IF HE’S LOVED-
SHE REMEMBERS THE FIRST TIME
HE FORGOT WHO SHE WAS