I hope you get the chance....

I am a sucker for lyrics. When we get a new CD, I take out the cover and read the lyrics before I listen to the music. I look them up online. I know the words to songs I loved 25 years ago and will sing out loud (but only when driving alone!) My music collection is so diverse because the lyrics are more important to me than the notes. My iTunes list contains Afro, Alternative, Pop, Rock, Country, and quite a few other genres. So, as I was listening last night to "Live Like You Were Dying," I pondered the words...long and hard. A question kept me up for hours.

And, after a night of tossing and turning, praying and planning, that burning question was answered when I realized that if I knew I only had a wee bit of time left on this earth, I don't think I'd be anywhere else doing any other thing.

As Wes King sings, "Life is precious...life is sweet!" Don't want to waste a moment!

Life Like You Were Dying

He said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me
And one 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 times.
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 did ya do?
He said

Chorus
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 some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

Verse 2
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 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

Bridge
Like tomorrow was the end
And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it
What should you do with it
What can I do with it
What would I do with it

I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And man I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'