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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When a moment came that stopped me on  a  dime.
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"I spent most of the next days,
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"Looking at the x-rays,
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and talking 'bout the options and 
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talkin’ ‘bout
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sweet time."I asked him when it sank in,
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That this might really be the real end?
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How’s it hit ya when you get that kind of news?

Man whatcha do? An' he said: 

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"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain 
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climbing,
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"I went two point seven seconds on a bull 
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named Fu Man Chu.
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"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
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"And I gave forgiveness I'd been de ny ing."
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And he said: "Some day, I hope you get the 
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chance "To live like you were dy   ing." 

(Verse 2)
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He said "I was finally the husband,
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That most the time I wasn’t.
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And I became a friend a friend would like to 
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have.
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And all a sudden goin' fishin’,
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Wasn’t such an imposition,
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And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
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I finally read the Good Book,
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And I took a good long hard look,
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At what I'd do if I could do it all again,

And then.. 
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I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain 
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climbing,
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"I went two point seven seconds on a bull
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 named Fu Man Chu.
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"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
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"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
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An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the 
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chance,
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"To live like you were dy     ing.”

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Like tomorrow was a gift,
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And you’ve got e ter ni ty,
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To think about what you’d do with it.
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And what did you do with  it?
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What did I do with it
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what would I do with it? 

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"Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
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"I went two point seven seconds on  a   bull 
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named Fu Man Chu.
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"And I  loved deeper  and I spoke sweeter,
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"And I watched an ea gle as  it was fly   ing."
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And he said: "Some day, I hope you get the 
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chance "To live like you were dy ing." 
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"To live like you were dy ing."
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"To live like you were dy ing." (repeat fading out)