Live Like We’re Dying

The Script

Kris Allen

It’s very interesting that Kris Allen’s choice for his very first single outside of the American Idol coronation song, is a cover of a song by The Script.  It’s not in the The Script’s debut album, this song was the B-side of their first single, “We Cry”.  So it’s pretty hard to find a copy of the song.  It’s interesting because although The Script was wildly popular here, in the U.S. they were widely overlooked.  Their biggest hit in the U.S. was their monster hit here, “The Man Who Can’t Be Moved”.  It went only as high as a measly #114 on the Billboard Hot 100.  So it’s really an odd choice for Kris who could’ve very easily sung an original composition from a slew of songwriters available to him.

But all that said, whichever version you prefer, the song is a beautiful composition.  It basically talks of how we only appreciate life when we’re about to lose it.  It’s very fitting for what the whole country went through last weekend.  After many have lost lives and property, everyone seems a little more thankful for what they still have.  It’s sad that sometimes it takes a tragedy before we stop and count our blessings.  We’re all guilty of this in varying degrees.  So it’s a nice way to capture the spirit of rebuilding what was left by Ondoy.  It’s a good way to live, to live like we’re dying.

Live Like We’re Dying

Sometimes we fall down and can’t get back up We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough How come we don’t say I love you enough Till it’s to late, it’s not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come We could make a feast from these crumbs And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun So if your life flashed before you What would you wish you would’ve done

Yeah… gotta start Lookin at the hand of the time we’ve been given here This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’ Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to Turn it all around or throw it all away We gotta tell ’em that we love ’em While we got the chance to say Gotta live like we’re dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies Who would you call with your last goodbyes Should be so careful who we live out our lives So when we long for absolution There’ll no one on the line

Yeah… gotta start Lookin at the hand of the time we’ve been given here This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’ Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to Turn it all around or throw it all away We gotta tell ’em that we love ’em While we got the chance to say Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying oh– like we’re dying [x2]

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to Turn it all around or throw it all away We gotta tell ’em that we love ’em While we got the chance to say Gotta live — like we’re dying

We never know a good thing till it’s gone You never see a crash until it’s head on All those people right when we’re dead wrong You never know a good thing till it’s gone