Live Like You Were Dying

He said, I was in my early forties

With a lot of life before me

And a moment came that stopped me on a dime

I spent most of the next days

Looking at the x-rays

Talking 'bout the options and talking 'bout sweet times

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 ya do?

And he said

I went skydiving

I went rocky mountain climbing

I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper

And I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I've been denying

And he said, "Someday I hope you get the 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 the sudden going fishing

Wasn't such an imposition

And I went three times that year I lost my dad

Well I, 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

I went skydiving

I went rocky mountain climbing

I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper

And I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I've been denying

And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were dying"

Like tomorrow was a gift

And you got eternity

To think about what you'd do with it

What could you do with it?

What did I do with it?

What would I do with it?

Sky diving

I went rocky mountain climbing

I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

Man, I loved deeper

And I spoke sweeter

And I watched an eagle as it was flying

And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were dying"

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying