Live Like You Were Dying

He said I was in my early forties With a lot of life before me When a moment came that stopped me on a dime I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays Talking bout the options and talking bout sweet time I asked him when it sank in That this might really be the real end How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news? Man, what'd ya do? And he said I went skydiving 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 denyin' And he said, Someday 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 And 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, 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 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 denyin' And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance To live like you were dyin' Like tomorrow was a gift And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it What did you do with it? What did I do with it? What would I do with it? Skydiving 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 watched an eagle as it was flyin' And he said, Someday I hope you get the chance To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin' To live like you were dyin'