Live Like You Were Dying

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He said I was in my early forties 
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with a lot of life before me
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and a moment came that stopped me 
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on a dime
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I spent most of the next days 
looking at the x-rays
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talking 'bout the options and 
talkin' 'bout sweet time

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I asked him when it sank in if this 
might really be the real end
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How's it hit 'cha when you get that
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 kind of news, man what'cha do

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I went sky diving
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I went rocky mountain climbing
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I went two point seven seconds on 
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a bull named Fu Man Chu
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And I loved deeper and I spoke 
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sweeter and I gave forgiveness id 
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been denying
and he said some day I hope you get 
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the chance to live like you were 
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dying

He said I was finally the husband 
that most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would
 like to have
And all of a sudden going fishin' 
wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I 
lost my dad
Well I finally read the Good Book
and I took a good long hard look at 
what id do if I could do it all 
again and then...

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 id 
been denying
and he said some day I hope you get 
the chance to live like you were 
dying

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got
 eternity to think about what you'd 
do with it
What could you do with it
What could I do with it
What would I do with it

Chorus
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