PTSD Patrol songs of our times

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 8, 2020

Today there are two feature videos on how life can change for the better. My life changed many times over the years but some songs still touched me. Melissa Manchester Come In From The Rain held different meaning as my life changed. I bet there are songs that did the same for you. 

#PTSD only has the power you let it have....#BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife

Come In From The Rain 

Lyrics 

Well, hello there

Good old friend of mine

You've been reaching for yourself

For such a long time

There's so much to say

No need to explain

Just an open door for you

To come in from the rain

It's a long road

When you're all alone

And someone like you

Will always take the long way home

There's no right or wrong

I'm not here to blame

I just want to be the one

Who keep you from the rain

From the rain

And it looks like sunny skies

Now that I know you're alright

Time has left us

Older

And wiser

I know I am

'Cause I think of us

Like an old cliche

But it doesn't matter

'Cause I love you anyway

Come in from the rain

And it looks like sunny skies

Now that I know you're alright

Time has left us

Older

But Wiser

I know I am

And it's good to know

My best friend has come home again

And I think of us

Like an old cliche

But it doesn't matter

'Cause I love you anyway

Come in from the rain

Come in from the rain

Come in from the rain

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carole Bayer Sager / Melissa Manchester / Melissa Toni Manchester

Come In From The Rain lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, BMG Rights Management, Carlin America Inc 

Ordinary World

Lyrics

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue

Thought I heard you talking softly

I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio

Still I can't escape the ghost of you

What has happened to it all?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is the life that I recognize?

Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence

Once prompted you to say

"Pride will tear us both apart"

Well, now pride's gone out the window

Cross the rooftops

Run away

Left me in the vacuum of my heart

What is happening to me?

Crazy, some'd say

Where is my friend when I need you most?

Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Papers in the roadside

Tell of suffering and greed

Fear today, forgot tomorrow

Ooh, here besides the news

Of holy war and holy need

Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

And I don't cry for yesterday

There's an ordinary world

Somehow I have to find

And as I try to make my way

To the ordinary world

I will learn to survive

Every world

Is my world

(I will learn to survive)

Any world

Is my world

(I will learn to survive)

Any world

Is my world

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Warren Cuccurullo / Nigel John Taylor / Nick Rhodes / Simon John Charles Le-Bon

Ordinary World lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

PTSD Patrol The Journey Home

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 7, 2020

When you hear the expression, "You can't go home again," what does that mean to you? To me, it means that you cannot go back to what you knew before, because nothing stays the same.

There are times I wish I could go back and talk to a younger me to give me comfort and assurance that everything was going to be OK, but I took "her" with me instead.

How comforting would that be if you could go back to let yourself know that whenever you were hurt or afraid, that by some miracle, a future you could show up and explain that?

Well, you are able to do that right now. Not for yourself, but for others on their own journey toward a happier life. You are the "older" them because you were where they are and can give them comfort that the "wheel in the sky keeps turning" and the unknown doesn't have to be as scary as they think it is.

You remember what that was like but now you know what it is like to #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Wheel In The Sky

Journey 

Winter is here again, oh lord

Haven't been home in a year or more

I hope she holds on a little longer

Sent a letter on a long summer day

Made of silver, not of clay

Ooh, I've been running down this dusty road 

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning 

I've been trying to make it home

Got to make it before too long

Ooh, I can't take this very much longer, no

I'm standing in the sleet and rain

Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again

The morning sun is rising

It's kissing the day 

Ooh, the wheel in the sky keeps on turning

I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

Wheel in the sky keeps on turning

Whoa, whoa, whoa

My, my, my, my, my

For Tomorrow 

Genius Lyrics 

PTSD Patrol Sing Your Victory Song!

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 6, 2020

Yesterday I had a mental health day and we went to a lake in Maine to spend some time with friends. I needed it! It will happen from time to time. 

This morning my buddy Gunny sent me a text with a couple  of song suggestions and when I saw this one, it fit perfectly for the way I was feeling.

That is why today's featured video is the Eagles I'm Already Gone, because I said that to depression yesterday and it is fitting when you are healing PTSD....now you can say that too with "I'm feeling strong and I will sing this victory song!" #BreakTheSilence and #TakeBackYourLife from #PTSD

Now, you can think of this as a goodbye song to a person or take a lot of parts of it and substitute it with PTSD!

"I'm already gone....feeling strong!"

Lyrics

Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day

And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf

But let me tell you I got some news for you

And you'll soon find out it's true

And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself

'Cause I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

Woo hoo hoo, my my, woo hoo hoo

The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why

But I guess you felt like you had to set things right

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky

You can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right)

And I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

Woo hoo hoo, my my, woo hoo hoo

Well, I know it wasn't you who held me down

Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key

But me, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

Already gone

All right, nighty-night

Already gone

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Jack Tempchin / Robert Arnold Strandlund

Already Gone lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc 

PTSD Patrol Maine mental health day

PTSD Patrol

Kathie Costos

September 5, 2020

I played hooky today in Maine....I needed a mental health day for myself and will post again tomorrow.

PTSD Patrol Now and Forever

PTSD Patrol
Kathie Costos
September 4, 2020 

Today's featured video is Carole King Now and Forever. If you lost someone, it can feel like this for you now...

Now and forever

you are a part of me

And the memory cuts like a knife

But a day will come when you think about them with warm memories instead of grieving. 

At least 187,000 Americans have lost their lives to COVID-19 since March. That is a lot of people to lose and many more are fighting for their lives in hospitals around the country.

Losing someone is traumatic, so this is for those who have suffered losing someone they cared about...you did not lose them if you keep them with you, in your heart.

Everything changes when they are gone and you miss them. I still miss hearing my Mom say at the end of our daily phone calls, "top priority" to remind me to just pick my battles and not try to take on the world. I miss my Dad sneezing saying "whisky" usually followed by a loud burb of "yep" which made everyone laugh. I miss my brothers and teasing on another. I miss my aunts and uncles, cousins and family get togethers. I miss a lot of friends who are no longer alive....but they are all still with me.

I miss seeing people and hugging them...social distancing is a terrible thing for a hugger to go through...so I try to do it online to let them know I'm still here for them.

If you lost someone, this is for you!

Lyrics

Now and forever

you are a part of me

And the memory cuts like a knife

Didn't we find the ecstasy

Didn't we share the daylight

When you walked into my life

Now and forever

I'll remember all the promises still unbroken

And think about all the words between us

That never needed to be spoken

We had a moment

Just one moment

That will last beyond a dream,

Beyond a lifetime

We are the lucky ones

Some people never get to do

All we got to do

Now and forever

I will always think of you

Didn't we come together

Didn't we live together

Didn't we cry together

Didn't we play together

Didn't we love together

And together we lit up the world

I miss the tears

I miss the laughter

I miss the day we met

and all that followed after

Sometimes I wish I

could always be with you

The way we used to do

Now and forever

I will always think of you

Now and forever

I will always be with you

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Carole King / Carole Bayer Sager / Kenny Babyface Edmonds

Now and Forever lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group