Some day, I hope you get the chance, To live like you were dyin’
Posted by: Gecko in Yammering, Personal newsso while driving along the other day and listening to the radio I got a tear. Yup thats right, a tear. its not the first time. Maybe its my A.D.D. and my inherent lack of ability to focus, but I can be completely off in la la land driving along and have a single line of music snap me into a place I haven’t been in 10 years.
I’m not going to bother with the artists, or the entire set of lyrics, nut here are a few things that I have heard lately that have made me think enough to actually make me pull over and write down a note.
He said: “I was in my early forties,
“With a lot of life before me,
“An’ a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
“I spent most of the next days,
“Looking at the x-rays,
“An’ talking ’bout the options an’ talkin’ ‘bout sweet time.”
I asked him when it sank in,
That this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man whatcha do?
“I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
“I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
“And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
“And I gave forgiveness I’d been denying.”
An’ he said: “Some day, I hope you get the chance,
“To live like you were dyin’.”
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If you could only see the way she loves me
Then maybe you would understand
Why I feel this way about our love
And what I must do
If you could only see how blue her eyes can be when she says
When she says she loves me
Seems the road less traveled
Shows happiness unraveled
And you got to take a little dirt
To keep what you love
Thats what you gotta do
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I wasn’t there that morning
When my father passed away
I didn’t get to tell him
All the things I had to say
I think I called his spirit
Later that same year
I’m sure I heard his echo
In my baby’s new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years.
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There were more but ill add them later.
Sometimes other people are better at putting into words what were thinking.
Sometimes they already have.
Just listen.