whats the meaning?

Question

what the meaning of the frays how to save a life song i dont really get it

Answer 1

It's about a kid that the lead singer Isaac Slade was a mentor to. This kid was off the deep end in drugs and alcohol. When he turned to people close to him to get support in fixing his life, people confronted him with a negative attitude about it, like they wouldn't speak to him anymore if he didn't change, and this kid told Isaac that all he ever wanted was for someone to come alongside him as a friend and just help him get through it. Isaac wrote the song about what the kid really wanted and how Isaac would want to be approached if someone were telling him that he was doing something wrong.
The name came from a sign Isaac saw at a swimming pool that gave CPR procedures titled . . . "How To Save A Life."

Answer 2

I think the Fray's lead singer, Isaac Slate, said it was about the troubles that kids had when he and some other guys were counsellers at summer camp.
But if I hadn't heard that part, I would have thought this song was about drinking. The part when he sings "she goes left while you stay right" indicates to me about the road. She goes left on the left lane while the guy stays right, and if you look through the girl's perspective, the guy's right on her lane.
Other parts of the song talks about "seeing a window", which might mean like a speed sign or something and the chorus part about wishing she never came would probably be about an emergancy room.