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Detailed explanation of the lyrics please.

2007-03-26 17:16:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music Television

8 answers

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 23:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by fraydar_at_its_finest 5 · 0 0

Poignant song. The song writer wrote this song from his experience working as a mentor for trouble and suicidal teens. It's his feeling his powerlessness to reach out and connect in order to save them. There are no manuals. No template to teach someone how to reach out to a teen in all his turmoil. No instructions and yet what hangs in the balance is so great that if you, as the person trying to reach out, do not succeed, a life may very well be lost. Keep that in mind and the lyrics will make more sense. The lyrics reflects one conversation the songwriter tried to have with a troubled boy. The repeating refrain is his lamenting that he didn't know how and wasn't able to save this one.

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay 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 in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

2007-03-27 00:47:55 · answer #2 · answered by Elisa 4 · 0 0

i'm doing a lyrical dance to that song right now at school!
it's about how this guy who like lost his girlfriend to another guy. he could've easily had her but he wasn't thinking. Now he regrets not comforting her in her time of need. something like that?

2007-03-27 00:18:18 · answer #3 · answered by mochachocolata 3 · 0 1

From what I understand, it's about someone who wasn't able to save a friend from taking his/her own life.

2007-03-27 00:26:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Its a deep song. If it werent so late, id get into it.

2007-03-27 00:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by Me 1 · 0 0

Anti Suicide! Saving someone from doing it!

2007-03-27 00:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by Ginny_17 1 · 0 1

its a good song

2007-03-27 00:53:13 · answer #7 · answered by someone 5 · 0 0

It's about loosing love...

2007-03-27 02:33:16 · answer #8 · answered by Fuzzy Wuzzy 6 · 0 1

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