How To Save A Life

Bronnie Ware, a palliative nurse based in Australia who counseled the dying in their last days, has revealed the most common regrets we have at the end of our lives:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier

Step one you say we need to talk

He walks you say sit down

 It's just talk

Smiles politely back at you

You stare politely right on through

Some sort of window to your right

He goes left & you stay right

Between the lines of fear & blame

& you begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

& 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

Pray to God he hears you

& pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong,

 I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

& 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,

 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

& you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong,

 I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

& I would have stayed up

 With you all night

Had I known how to save a life
Slade/King

2006