2007-02-21 15:04:39 · 7 answers · asked by abbas_n_chantel 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
In an interview with USA Today, lead singer Isaac Slade explained that he wrote this song about an experience he had working at a camp for troubled youths: "One of the kids I was paired up with was a musician. Here I was, a protected suburbanite, and he was just 17 and had all these problems. And no one could write a manual on how to save him. I got a lot of email about it. One kid died in a car accident, and I guess it had been the last song he downloaded from his computer. They played it at his funeral, and some of his friends got 'Save a life' tattooed on their arms. The response has been overwhelming."
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2007-02-21 15:19:25 · answer #1 · answered by Mommy To Be in April 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you listen to the words in the song it is more or less a song about a girl breaking up w/ a guy and the guy wants to know where he went wrong and how they started off friend but after the relationship how he lost the friendship....
"step one you say we need to talk he walks you say sit down it just a talk he smiles politely back at you you stare politely right on through some sort of window to your right between the lines of fear and blame and you begin to wonder why you came
where did i go wrong i lost a friend somewhere along the bitterness and i would of stayed up with you all night and i know how to save a life
let him know that you know best cause after all you know best try to slip past his defense w/o granting innocence lay down the list of what is wrong the things you've told him all along and pray to god he hears you
as he begins to raise his voice you lower your and grant him one last choice drive until you loose the road or break the ones that you have followed he will do 1 of 2 things he will admit to everything or say hes not the same and you ll begin to wonder why you came..."
when you read the word instead of just listening to them they make a little more since
2007-02-21 15:35:25 · answer #2 · answered by lilbluemaninmyhead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how many times is this question going to get asked?
It's about a teen Isaac Slade, the lead singer, mentored at a church camp who was over his head in drugs and alcohol. He told Isaac that he only wanted someone to come along side him as a friend to help him solve his problem, instead of as an enemy with a change-or-I-won't-talk-to-you-... attitude, which he never really got. Isaac wrote the song about what the kid really wanted and how Isaac would want someone to approach him if he were doing something wrong. It is told from the point of view of one of those people with the negative attitude and them realizing their mistakes after he's gone.
The name of the song comes from a sign at a swimming pool that Isaac saw with directions on CPR titled . . . How To Save A Life.
Last I heard, the kid was still alive though . . . and Isaac had just recently talked to him
2007-02-22 08:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by fraydar_at_its_finest 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God,I love that song.The beauty of music is that it has different meanings to everyone.I can apply this song to a couple things in my life.
2007-02-21 18:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by noname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The member of the band that wrote it sat down with his friend who was a drug addict and was talking to him about all of the stuff that he messed up because of drugs. All of his relationships and such. Voila, lyrics were born.
2007-02-21 15:09:38 · answer #5 · answered by Liz | 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Trying to get through to someone that isnt listening.
2007-02-21 15:10:28 · answer #6 · answered by ♣Ally♣ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's about the intervention of a loved one.
Matt
http://www.myspace.com/thefrenzysa
2007-02-21 16:21:32 · answer #7 · answered by Matt A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋