Time Warps

Every guest of the Hotel Carcinoma has spent some ‘quality time’ at a cancer treatment center, wondering about in search of the venue for the next event of the day and living in that time warp zone where “he’ll be right with you” has a rather relative and elastic meaning. One of the folks at the AMC Cancer Fund, which raises money to support the University of Colorado Cancer Center, suggested that I put the experience to music, to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Hazy Shade of Winter”…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRwURvCqSOk

Time, time, time, it don’t belong to me
While I looked around
For my next appointment sight
It was so hard to find
But look around, walls are white
And my skin is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the Pavilion music man
Down at the clinic place, you hope to be a better case
Than what they've got scanned
Carry your films in your hand
And look around, walls are white now
And my skin is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
It's simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, my risk is high
My tumor’s ripe, it's the springtime of my life

Ahhh, doctors frown at the plight of me
Writing notes out of sight of me
Won't you come and examine me
At any convenient time
Funny how my memory slips while looking over scan results
Of potential signs
Taking Ativan with wine

I look around, walls are white now
And my skin is a hazy shade of winter

Look around, walls are white
There's carcinoma in their sites...

Look around, walls are white
There's carcinoma in their sites...

Look around, walls are white
There's carcinoma in their sites...