Live Like You Were Dying

He said, "I was in my early 40s with a lot of life before me

When a moment came to stop me on a dime

I spent most of the next days lookin' at the x-rays

Talkin' 'bout the options, 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, what'd you do?

And he said

"I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing

I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"

And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were 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 the 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 I'd do if I could do it all again"

And then

"I went skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing

I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter

And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"

And he said, "Someday 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

And what did you do with it?

And what did I do with it?

What would I do with it?

Skydiving, I went Rocky Mountain climbing

I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter

And I watched an eagle as it was flying

And he said, "Someday I hope you get the chance

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying

To live like you were dying"