The Monologues of GREY'S ANATOMY

by Queen

Music

“Breaking Down” by Breath

“Fly” by Mark Joseph

“Fool's Gold” by Adrienne Pierce

“Infinity” by Merrick

“I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning” by Bright Eyes

“World Spins Madly On” by The Weepies

by R.E.M

Music

“Under The Waves” by Pete Droge

“Side 2” by Dressy Bessy

“Colors” by Amos Lee

“Destination Vertical” by Masha Qrella

“Grace” by Kate Havnevik

“Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol

by The Flaming Lips

Monologue

“Human beings need a lot to feel alive. Family. Love. Sex. But we only need one thing to actually be alive. We need a beating a heart. When our heart is threatened, we respond in one of two ways. We either run or we attack. There's a scientific term for this. Fight... or flight. It's instinct. We can't control it. Or can we?”

- Meredith Grey, George O'Malley, Izzie Stevens, Cristina Yang, Derek Shepherd, Preston Burke, Addison Montgomery-Shepherd, Alex Karev, Richard Webber & Miranda Bailey

Music

“Universe & U (Acoustic Extravaganza Version)” by KT Tunstall

“Look At Her Face” by The Coral Sea

“Through The Backyards” by Au Revoir Simone

“How We Operate” by Gomez

“Seventeen Seconds” by The Cure

Monologue

“In life we are taught that there are seven deadly sins. We all know the big ones... gluttony, pride, lust. But the sin you don't hear much about is anger. Maybe it's because we think anger is not that dangerous, that you can control it. My point is, maybe we don't give anger enough credit. Maybe it can be a lot more dangerous than we think. After all, when it comes to destructive behavior, it did make the top seven. So what makes anger different from the six other deadly sins? It's pretty simple really, you give into a sin like envy or pride and you only hurt yourself. Try lust or coveting and you'll only hurt yourself and probably one or two others. But anger, anger is the worst... the mother of all sins... Not only can anger drive you over the edge, when it does, you can take an awful lot of other people with you.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Gold Lion” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

“Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking” by Snow Patrol

by Motörhead

Monologue

“We all go through life like bulls in a china shop. A chip here, a crack there. Doing damage to ourselves, to other people. The problem is trying to figure out how to control the damage we've done, or that's been done to us. Sometimes the damage catches us by surprise. Sometimes we think we can fix the damage. And sometimes the damage is something we can't even see. We're all damaged, it seems. Some of us, more than others. We carry the damage with us from childhood, then as grown-ups, we give as good as we get. Ultimately, we all do damage. And then, we set about the business of fixing whatever we can.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Iguana” by Sergio Belem

“Oh My Love” by Inara George

“Tragedy” by Brandi Carlile

“Nowhere Warm” by Kate Havnevik

“On The Radio” by Regina Spektor

by Lenny Kravitz

Monologue

“The key to being a successful intern is what we give up: sleep, friends, and a normal life. We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment, that moment when you can legally call yourself a surgeon. There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can’t even figure out why you're making. A wise man once said “You can have anything in life if you’re willing to sacrifice everything else for it.” What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime building. Of course the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming. When we don’t have time to come up with a strategy to pick sides... or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us, and not the other way around, that’s when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Love” by The Sunshine

“The Police and the Private” by Metric

“Partita For Violin Solo No. 2 In D Minor, BWV 1004: Part I. Allemande” by Johann Sebastian Bach

“Better Man” by James Morrison

“Follow Through” by Hotel Lights

“Go Mad” by Caleb Kane

“Gogo Don't Go” by The Chalets

“Red High Heels” by The Chalets

“Fight Your Kids” by The Chalets

by ABBA

Monologue

“A good basketball game can have us all on the edge of our seats. Games are all about the glory, pain, and the play by play. And then there are the more solitary games. The games we each play all by ourselves. The social games, the mind games. We use them to pass the time to make life more interesting... to distract us from what's really going on. There are those of us who love to play games, any game. And there are those of us who love to play a little too much. Life is not a spectator sport. Win, lose, or draw, the game is in progress whether we want it to be or not. So go ahead... argue with the ref, change the rules, cheat a little, take a break and tend to your wounds. But play. Play. Play hard, play fast... play loose and free. Play as if there's no tomorrow. Okay, so it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game... right?”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Girl, You Shout!” by Dressy Bessy

“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley

“C'mon Yeah” by The Sunshine

“Wreck of the Day (Acoustic)” by Anna Nalick

“The Fear You Won't Fall” by Joshua Radin

“Life Is Short” by Butterfly Boucher

“You Think I'm Crazy” by Phil War

by Stevie Wonder

Monologue

“My college campus has a magic statue. It’s a longstanding tradition for students to rub its nose for good luck. My freshman roommate really believed in the statue's power and insisted on visiting it to rub its nose before every exam. Studying might have been a better idea, she flunked out her sophomore year. The fact is, we all have little superstitious things that we do. If it’s not believing in magic statues, it’s avoiding sidewalk cracks or always putting our left shoe on first. Knock on wood. Step on a crack, break your mothers back. The last thing we want to do is offend the gods. Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can't. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it thirty three times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no one’s listening, why do we bother doing those strange things at all? We rely on superstitions because we're smart enough to know we don't have all the answers. And that life works in mysterious ways. Don't diss the juju, from wherever it comes.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“You Don't Know Me” by Greenskeepers

“Catalyst (Acoustic)” by Anna Nalick

“Free” by Luke Doucet

“How to Save a Life” by The Fray

“Gabriel and the Vagabond” by Foy Vance

“Multiply” by Jamie Lidell

by Scarling 

Monologue

“As doctors, patients are always telling us how they'd do our jobs. Just stitch me up, slap a band-aid on it and send me home. It’s easy to suggest a quick solution, when you don’t know much about the problem or you don’t understand the underlying cause or just how deep the wound is. The first step toward a real cure is to know exactly what the disease is to begin with. But that’s not what people want to hear. We're supposed to forget the past that led us here, ignore the future complications that might arise and go for the quick fix. As doctors, as friends, as human beings, we all try to do the best we can. But the world is full of unexpected twists and turns. And just when you’ve gotten the lay of the land, the ground underneath you shifts. And knocks you off your feet. If you’re lucky, you’ll end up with nothing more than a flesh wound, something a band-aid will cover. But, some wounds are deeper than they first appear and require more than just a quick fix. With some wounds, you have to rip off the band-aid, let them breathe, and give them time to heal.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Breathe Again” by Ning Baizura

“Come Sing Me a Song” by Sing-Sing

“Modern Love” by The Last Town Chorus

“So Weit” by The Urbs

“One” by Tina Dico

“Flying High” by Jem

by Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield

Monologue

“Okay, so, sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we're going to regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean, maybe not regret, regret because at least, you know, we put ourselves out there. But...still. Something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know will probably turn around and bite us in the ass. Yet, we do it anyway. What I'm saying is...we reap what we sow. what comes around goes around. It's karma and, any way you slice it...karma sucks. Like I was saying payback's a bitch. One way or another our karma will leave us to face ourselves. We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up on us from behind. One way or another, our karma will always find us. And the truth is, as surgeons, we have more chances than most to set the balance in our favor. No matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma. It follows us home. I guess we can't really complain about our karma. It's not unfair. It's not unexpected. It just...evens the score. And even when we're about to do something we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass...well, it goes without saying. We do it anyway.”

- George O’Malley

Music

“Careless Love” by Madeleine Peyroux

“I Hate Everyone by Get Set Go

“Be Gentle With Me” by The Boy Least Likely To

“Throw It All Away” by Brandi Carlile

“Slow Down” by New Moscow

“Newsflash” by Sandra Melody

by The Beatles

Monologue

“After careful consideration and many sleepless nights, here's what I've decided. There's no such thing as a grown-up. We move on, we move out, we move away from our families and form our own. But the basic insecurities, the basic fears and all those old wounds just grow up with us. And just when we think that life and circumstances have forced us truly, once and for all become an adult, your mother says something like that. Or worse, something like that. We get bigger, we get taller, we get older. But, for the most part, we're still a bunch of kids, running around the playground, trying desperately to fit in. I've heard that it's possible to grow up, I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way. We whisper secrets with our best friend, in the dark. We look for comfort where we can find it. And we hope against all logic, against all experience, like children, we never give up hope.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Diplo Rhythm” by Diplo, Pantera Os Danadinhos, Sandra Melody & Vybz Kartel

“Night Rocker” by The Chalets

“Just One Breath” by Devics

“Closer” by Joshua Radin

“It Don't Matter to the Sun” by Rosie Thomas

“Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On” by Headlights

“Like a Star” by Corinne Bailey Rae

“It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine” by R.E.M.

Monologue

“In hospitals they say you know. You know when you’re going to die. Some doctors say it’s a look patients get in their eyes. Some say there’s a scent, a smell of death. Some think there’s just some kind of sixth sense, when the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. Whatever it is, it's creepy. Because if you know, what do you do about it? Forget about the fact that you're scared out of your mind. If you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“All the World (I Tell Myself)” by Correatown

“Stay Where You Are” by Ambulence LTD

“World Spins Madly On” by The Weepies

“Back In The Wild” by Greenskeepers

“Homebird” by Foy Vance

“Breathe (2 AM)” by Anna Nalick

“Unlike Me” by Kate Havnevik

“It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by R.E.M.

Monologue

“It's a look patients get in their eyes. There is a scent, the smell of death. Some kind of sixth sense. When the great beyond is headed for you, you feel it coming. What's the one thing you've always dreamed of doing before you die? Okay, hello? Clearly not my dream. See, I told you. Not my dream.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“Dead Streets” by The Monotypes

“Miniature Disasters” by KT Tunstall

“Kaboom!” by Ursula 1000

“In the Sun” by Michael Stipe & Chris Martin

“In the Sun” by Joseph Arthur

“Unlike Me” by Kate Havnevik

“Break on Through (To the Other Side)” by The Doors

Monolgoue

“In surgery, there is a red line on the floor that marks the point where the hospital goes from being accessible to being off limits to all but a special few. Crossing the line unauthorized is not tolerated. In general, lines are there for a reason. For safety. For security. For clarity. If you choose to cross the line, you pretty much do so at your own risk. So why is it, that the bigger the line, the greater the temptation to cross it? We can’t help ourselves. We see a line, we want to cross it. Maybe it’s the thrill of trading the familiar for the unfamiliar. A sort of personal dare. Only problem is, once you’ve crossed it’s almost impossible to go back. But if you do manage to make it back across that line you find safety in numbers.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“The Suggestion Box” by Aqueduct

“Big Big World” by Emilia

“Small World, Big Girl” by Rebecca Lynn

“Wanna Fly” by Vassy

“Someone to Love” by Kate Earl

“Sailed On” by Landon Pigg

“Scratch” by Kendall Payn

“Just in Case” by Leeroy Stagger

“Little Lies” by Fleetwood Mac

Monologue

“As doctors, we're trained to be skeptical, because our patients lie to us all the time. The rule is, every patient is a liar until proven honest. Lying is bad. Or so we are told constantly from birth—honesty is the best policy, the truth shall set you free, I chopped down the cherry tree, whatever. The fact is, lying is a necessity. We lie to ourselves because the truth, the truth freaking hurts. No matter how hard we try to ignore or deny it, eventually the lies fall away, whether we like it or not. But here's the truth about the truth: It hurts. So we lie.”

- Meredith Grey

Music

“A Good Thing” by St. Etienne

“Monster Hospital” by Metric

“Wienermobile Girl” by Mike Tarantino

“I Got Some Moves” by Sam Winch

“Am I Just One” by Carey Ott

“Fool's Gold” by Adrienne Pierce

by R.E.M.

Monologue

“Fresh starts - thanks to the calendar, they happen every year. Just set your watch to January. Our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year, bringing on the great tradition of New Year’s Resolutions. Put your past behind you and start over. It’s hard to resist the chance at a new beginning. A chance to put the problem’s of last year to bed. Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, not a new year. It’s an event, big or small, something that changes us. Ideally, it gives us hope. A new way of living and looking at the world. Letting go of old habits, old memories… What’s important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning. But it’s also important to remember that amid all the crap… are a few things really worth holding on to.”

 - Meredith Grey

Music

“Break Your Momma's Back” by Slow Runner

“Hide Another Mistake” by The 88

“One of These Days” by Kraak and Smaak

“Ride” by Cary Brothers

by Elmo and Patsy

Monologue

“It's an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out they actually go down. Experts think it's because people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason that depression rates actually do spike at the holidays. Yeah, okay. Izzie doesn't count. There's an old proverb that says you can't choose your family. You take what the fates hand you. And like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there's the school of thought that says the family you're born into is simply a starting point. They feed you, and clothe you, and take care of you until you're ready to go out into the world and find your tribe.”

 - Meredith Grey

Music

“The Christmas Song” by Nat King Cole

“This Christmastime” by Mascott & Dave Derby

“Santa Claus is Comin' To Town” by Lou Rawls

“Back Door Santa” by Jet

“Christmas After All” by Maria Taylor

“Here Comes Your Ride” by Holidays on Ice

“It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” by Sixpence None the Richer

“Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming” by Catie Curtis