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? An' he said:
"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."
last time
substitute with "and I watched an
eagle as it was flying"
An' he
said: "Some
day, I hope you get the chance,
To live like you
were dyin'."
He said "I was finally the husband,
That most the time I wasn’t.
An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.
And all of a sudden goin' 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: " Chorus
Like tomorrow was a gift,
And you got eternity,
To think about what you’d do with it.
An' what did you do with it?
An' what can I do with it?
An' what would I do with it? Chorus
To live like you were dyin'. (4x)
