I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life As he begins to raise his voice You lower yours and grant him one last choice Drive until you lose the road Or break with the ones you've followed He will do one of two things He will admit to everything Or he'll say he's just not the same And you'll begin to wonder why you came Where did I go wrong? He backed down from many of their disagreements and it never seemed to work, in the end of both literal and figurative meanings both had lost in the end, one was dead and the other lost his best friend that they tried so hard to keep and maintain. His story was just amazing — all the relationships that he had put at risk because of the decisions he made, and eventually losing the relationships. And the lyrics are right, No one knows how to save a life. I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life As he begins to raise his voice You lower yours and grant him one last choice Drive until you lose the road Or break with the ones you've followed He will do one of two things He will admit to everything Or he'll say he's just not the same And you'll begin to wonder why you came Where did I go wrong? We simply accept it forever or deny it forever, a personal choice. Then he concocted this repetitious drum beat that moved the lullaby along with Ben. What does he need to admit to? Note: insert 200650 into search. I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life As he begins to raise his voice You lower yours and grant him one last choice Drive until you lose the road Or break with the ones you've followed He will do one of two things He will admit to everything Or he'll say he's just not the same And you'll begin to wonder why you came Where did I go wrong? She 'tries' to quit, but she can't.
But lost them to an argument. Then the evil one dies as his friend weeps over his dead friend. There remains a feeling of guilt in me. Maybe hearing this song might make a person realize that their mom or friend or neighbor or sister would be crying later and wishing they could have done something-anything-to prevent it. They played it at his funeral, and some of his friends got 'Save a life' tattooed on their arms.
The last time I saw him was Sep. As a mentor for an aspiring 17-year-old musician, he could find no way to save his life before his problems got worse. Read the first verse- car accident is extremely irrelevant and nonsensical. Archived from on October 20, 2012. In the chorus, the singer laments that he himself was unable to save a friend because he did not know how. Also, a man is dying and the worker falls in love with him. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, using to , rather than simply listing appearances.
This is a very deep song and you really have to look inside to understand. I always liked the song but I guess I didnt pay that much attention to the lyrics. That being said, the band has left the song open for interpretation. But in this song, the person does. All of these children have lost a significant loved one prior to the video, and many of them cry and scream in the video, all against a white background.
I was paired up with one boy in particular. They helped her get therapy and shes still learning that shes perfect and it wasn't that my dad didn't want her or didn't love her or was happy without her, her had his own problems, ones that didn't include her at all. They would have tried to help him through it if they knew anything about life saving. Isaac, the frontman for the band has the worlds ugliest face, it looks like it belongs on a pig, and Joe King has issues with his father that he throws in everyone's face. He finally sat down and we talked and talked trying to save our relationship. Um, I can now relate to the song 'How to save a Life' by the Fray.
Archived from on October 14, 2008. I'm such an uncaring person. He tells the story of these two people as is if he completely removed from the situation. Ever since then, on to my to work, I would listen to this song, and before I went in, I would ask God for the wisdom and for the second chance to help save another life, and he has given me every opportunity to do so, and I would like to think that I have saved many lives since. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Which is incredibly sad you can go to YouTube and type The Fray- How to save a life original video.
God does hear you when you pray. Are you blind or something? I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life How to save a life How to save a life Isaac Slade, the lead singer of The Fray, was inspired to write this song while he worked as a mentor for a crack addicted teen in a camp. It is obviously about suicide. We needed to talk, at first he didn't want to but we'd been having issues and it was finally an all or nothing kind of talk. The girlfriend, believeing she screwed everything up and lost everything she cared about commits suicide.
Anyone who says that this song is not about suicide is just dumb. I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life Where did I go wrong? This song would describe her trying to talk me out of it. It made me cry when I first heard it. Musically and artistically, as well as being meaningful and emotional. How can anyone think it's not? There is a conflict between these two characters that Slade purposely neglects to mention so as to present a situation that is relatable to almost any person.