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 too 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 it…
[Chorus]
Yeah, gotta start
Looking at the hand of the time we've been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start thinkin' 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 you plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out of our lives
So when we long for absolution, there'll be no one on the line
You never know a good thing until it's gone
You never see a crash until it's head on
All these people right when we're dead wrong,
You never know a good thing till it's gone
-Kris Allen
This song is brilliant. Hands down, top 3 songs lyrically that I have ever heard. But it’s really got me to stop and think about everything. Just listen to the song and try to answer the questions that he poses towards you. It has single handedly inspired me to actually start living the way I have been striving too. So I’m going to break the song down for how it touches me. Of course you could look at the song as if it’s a love song, but I’m not going to touch that. It’s a bit cliché and it’s not how it really struck me.
“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 too late, it's not too late”
--This totally applies to my soccer endeavors currently. Not just the fact that I didn’t make the Galaxy but the fact that I let myself slip out of prime shape and had to pull myself back up to get into shape. That very last line is giving hope that it is never to late to change anything.
“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 it…”
--I take this as a personal strike against daydreaming. It’s great to daydream, but sometimes you have to just look up and realize what you have is fantastic and you can make something even better out of what you already currently have. Sometimes we’re really just committing our own suicide with life in general. We’re too busy scared to take a chance and yet if everything flashed before your eyes wouldn’t you regret not doing it? Be it asking that girl on a date, or going for that soccer tryout, or recording that demo disk. Go for it and don’t hinder yourself.
“And if you plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out of our lives
So when we long for absolution, there'll be no one on the line”
--This is totally showing that you should NEVER take someone for granted and that you need to tell him or her what they mean to you. No one’s going to be perfect but they can still mean the world to you.
“You never know a good thing until it's gone
You never see a crash until it's head on
All these people right when we're dead wrong,
You never know a good thing till it's gone”
--This is really cliché but very true. Humans in general just assume everything is going to go their way, and get melancholy with everything. Then something sudden happens and takes that all away. You really must never get lazy with life, and should enjoy every moment. It’s all a gift from God after all.
“[Chorus]
Yeah, gotta start
Looking at the hand of the time we've been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start thinkin' 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”
--This is really quite a brilliant chorus. Written the way a chorus is supposed. It backs up ALL previous ideas without repeating exact wording. I have to admit it’s sums everything up perfectly.
I think this song may go down as my theme song for my life now. I’m going to strive to always remember this and live the way he suggests. I have much more I could write, but I work in 6 hours and need sleep so I may add more later J
~Chris
