{"id":379,"date":"2021-06-23T18:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/?p=379"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:58:32","slug":"the-fray-how-to-save-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-fray-how-to-save-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fray &#8211; How To Save A Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lead singer of this band, Isaac Slade, was inspired to write, compose, and sing this song while working as a mentor at a camp for troubled teens. Isaac Slade says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c One of the youngsters I was paired up with was a musician. Here I was, a protected suburbanite, and he was just 17 and had all these problems. And no one could write a manual on how to save him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-From Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a beautiful song about saving a life from suicide. I knew a person who tried to OD in drugs once. If you catch someone trying to commit suicide, make sure they get the help that they need. It is like the saying goes, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for life.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How To Save A Life - The Fray (Lyrics)\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rkBvhnri5s0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Lyrics to How To Save A Life<\/strong> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Step one you say we need to talk<br>He walks you say sit down it&#8217;s just a talk<br>He smiles politely back at you<br>You stare politely right on through<br>Some sort of window to your right<br>As he goes left and you stay right<br>Between the lines of fear and blame<br>You begin to wonder why you came<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br><br>Let him know that you know best<br>Cause after all you do know best<br>Try to slip past his defense<br>Without granting innocence<br>Lay down a list of what is wrong<br>The things you&#8217;ve told him all along<br>And pray to God he hears you<br>And pray to God he hears you<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br><br>As he begins to raise his voice<br>You lower yours and grant him one last choice<br>Drive until you lose the road<br>Or break with the ones you&#8217;ve followed<br>He will do one of two things<br>He will admit to everything<br>Or he&#8217;ll say he&#8217;s just not the same<br>And you&#8217;ll begin to wonder why you came<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br>How to save a life<br>How to save a life<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br><br>CHORUS:<br>Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend<br>Somewhere along in the bitterness<br>And I would have stayed up with you all night<br>Had I known how to save a life<br>How to save a life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lead singer of this band, Isaac Slade, was inspired to write, compose, and sing this song while working as a mentor at a camp for troubled teens. Isaac Slade says: \u201c One of the youngsters I was paired up with was a musician. Here I was, a protected suburbanite, and he was just 17&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/the-fray-how-to-save-a-life\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,278,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.smoth.net\/Krystal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}