Lyrics: Live Like You Were Dying

He said I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
When a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days
Looking at the x-rays
And talking ‘bout the options,
talking ‘bout sweet time
And I asked him when it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How’s it hit ya’ when you get that
kind of news
Man, what’d you do (he said)

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I went sky diving I went rocky
mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a
bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
and I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying
And he said one day I hope you get a chance
To live like you were dying

He said I was finally the husband
That most the time I wasn’t
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of sudden going fishin’
Wasn’t such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
And I finally read the good book
And I took a good long hard look
At what I’d do if I could do it all again
and then

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Like tomorrow was a gift
And you’ve got eternity to think about what to do with it
What would you do with it…what did I do with it

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