The song "How to save a life" by the Fray, I really love that song.. but im having a hard time understanding the lyrics, can anybody help me out? thanks!
2007-03-25 16:48:39 · 4 answers · asked by stupid 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
One of the band members (Isaac Slade) worked at a summer camp for troubled kids and this was the inspiration for the song.
From their website:
The title track, "How To Save A Life," was inspired by Slade's experience as a mentor to a crack addicted teen. "I was a sheltered suburban kid when I met this guy. He was a recovering addict, coming out of a really tough teenage life. Thankfully, he was on his way out of that life, so he was able to really look back with some objectivity. The song is more of a memoir about his slow motion descent and all the relationships he lost along the way." Destined to be one of the band's greatest hits, Slade isn't worried about getting tired of performing the song: "It is the easiest one for me to sing every night. I constantly get emails from people who relate to it."
http://www.thefray.net/site.html
http://www.howtosavealife.com/
2007-03-25 16:55:00 · answer #1 · answered by elf2002 6 · 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 in the chorus, but the verses are told from the addict's point of view.
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.
The last I heard, the kid was still alive though . . . and Isaac had just recently talked to him
2007-03-26 07:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by fraydar_at_its_finest 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Injustice: Before the damned - all that stays The plague - as i lay loss of life Buried alive and nightmare - each via avenged sevenfold Cemetary gates - pantera Pull more difficult at the strings of your martyr - trivium Disciple - slayer Racism: None off the highest of my head, sorry. Escaping society: Take me away - killswitch interact Ascendancy - trivium Disciple via slayer How messed our global is: Like mild to flies, Throes of perdition and a gunshot to the pinnacle of trepidation - trivium Angle of dying via slayer Childs innocence: Cant consider of any, sorry.
2016-09-05 16:17:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love that song too. i think he's talking about talking to a friend about quiting drugs or alcohol or something like that but the person gets over sensative and he loses them as a friend.
2007-03-25 17:11:14 · answer #4 · answered by Guitar fanatic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋