What do you think How to Save a Life means?

The Fray: How to Save a Life Meaning

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Song Released: 2006


How to Save a Life Lyrics

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear...

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  5. anonymous
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     Aug 5th 2011 !⃝

    I looked up the lyrics to this song and found comments underneath calling the fray shit and the lyrics horrible. Easy to say, sure as this ordinarily wouldn't have struck a chord with me either. However, I have to be honest. As a 17 year old girl who has been hospitalized and institutionalized twice for cocaine abuse, got clean and relapse the meaning of this song feels so personal. I almost think that god drove me to search the YouTube video for it spontaneously about 30 minutes ago because the first thing that came to mind while listening was that the song is about a fearful parent pleading with a drug addicted child. The thought brought me to tears. It's very humbling to recognize the pain that my addiction has caused my family and I'm so blessed that they have yet to give up on my. Mom, dad I love you so much. Thank you for relentlessly being there to save my life as a fight so hard to throw it away.

  6. urcool91
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     Aug 4th 2011 !⃝

    This song is probobly about someone trying to help a friend quit a bad habit like drugs, and them failing, resulting in their friend's death.

  7. anonymous
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     Jul 11th 2011 !⃝

    I think this song is about having a friend that committed suicide, and now he is thinking back on how he could have saved them. "if I'd known how to save a life..." He wishes that he would have been more understanding and taken his friends problems more seriously, and looking back he believes that he could have saved his life.

  8. anonymous
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     Jul 7th 2011 !⃝

    I think this song is about knowing someone who is suffering from something that's killing them slowly but not knowing about that suffering. Then you suddenly lose that person and that's when you start to figure out what's wrong with that person. It's about regretting the fact that you didn't do anything to help that person.

  9. anonymous
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     Jun 29th 2011 !⃝

    I think the song is about a girl breaking up with a guy, and then the guy gets so upset about it that he goes and kills himself.
    OR
    i think the song could be about a girl having some kind of problem and had to break up with her boyfriend bc shes about to die and she doesnt want to tell him, because she doesnt want him to worry, then he gets mad at her and walks away, then when he found out she died, he regrets not spending every minute she had left with her. hence "i would have stayed up with you all night, had i known how to save a life. "
    this is just what i think, personally.

  10. anonymous
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     Jun 16th 2011 !⃝

    I think the song is about a guy wanting/trying to introduce him to christianity. He is scared to say anything to his friend because he might lose him. He wants his friend to know and love God like he does. It's hard to try to bring someone to christ. I know because i want to. If you aren't a christian, you wouldn't get what i meant.

  11. anonymous
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     Jun 7th 2011 !⃝

    Honestly the way i see it, depending on a person's situation. I see it as a guy who had the chance to be with the girl he wanted but blew it and now its too late to take it back. Thats the way i see it.

  12. anonymous
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     May 22nd 2011 !⃝

    I thought it was about someone dying or something and it kinda is.

  13. anonymous
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     Apr 23rd 2011 !⃝

    I lived it... trying to talk to someone that had addictions and put themselves in front of me time after time. I would try to talk to them and even had it written down so I would remember what to say. He even would sit and listen and convince me I was the person that he would always be there for. He offered me everything he had to stay...except himself. You don't have to die to be dead. I could not save him and I chose to save my self instead.

  14. anonymous
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     Apr 22nd 2011 !⃝

    I find it intriguing to listen to the song as if it were written by the writer to himself. Imagine the songwriter singing it to himself in the mirror. Losing "a friend" as a reference to losing his own identity, or self-worth as a result of his battle with addiction or depression. Just another perspective...

  15. anonymous
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     Apr 17th 2011 !⃝

    i think that it's about two really good friends and how a bad relationship ruined there friendship, and how confrontation is really hard especially when they used to be such good friends but he is not willing to listen the girl. i think this is what its about.

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