I’m getting tons of search strings looking for the lyrics to “How To Save A Life” by The Fray (not The Frey, as some of you keep searching for!), and of course, I aim to please, so here you go. (It helps that I’ve been wondering what they are too!)
Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you’ve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you’ve followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
How to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life
How to save a life
Comments
Hey! You were right, I spelled the group’s name incorrectly and ended up here.
Thank you for the lyrics. They haunt me. Are they about a friend that he’s lost to a drug addiction? Is the friend still among the living?? I’d like to know what others think.
Nice site! I’m a bit of a triva nut myself. I am two score plus 1 years older then you. (REALLY WAH!!)
I lost a freind recently, a best friend… I tried, but I did not know how to save a life.
Thanks for letting me know the lyrics to this song… and I have to agree, the song is about losing a friend… a best friend to a drug addiction… anyways that’s how I see it because that is what happen to me……. he chose drugs…. and I didn’t …
haaay .. me and two of my friends have made this song our own. its actually a funny story why, but we did. it means alot to me, and my two friends. thanks heaps for publishing these lyrics.
love always; x
I been lookin for these , TY . this song re minds me of me and my friend, we kinda have something but she tests me and i havent caught the hint i guess and im afraid that she has moved on. wish i could tell her but the pain not knowing is much less that loosing her or hurting her . i just want to forget her but shes not one to just stay away .. and i love her for it. ty These lyrics mean a lot .
I seem to think the song is bout how lovers always start off as frnd’z n somwhr down da line EVEN IF U THINK IT WONT….it alwayz duz end n evethin seems irreversible…. “sit down its jus a talk” bout da break up….”he raises his voice…u lower urs”….v women r emotional fools wen we REALLY DO fall in love n as time goes by he stops noticing evethin u do 2please him….how many times in ur life hav u thot “dis time its gna last”…… i maybe wrong…my interpretation…but life means diff things to diff ppl….so duz muzik… cheers =)
this song really means a lot to me. i just lost my best friend, not because she chose the wrong path, but I did. she stood by me throughout the last 6 months and i let her down by losing my sobriety. i really screwed up!!! so im starting over-itll be one week this saturday that im sober again. in the song, i represent the “he” and darla represents the “you”. only she didn’t go wrong, i did - and she has stayed up with me all night to help me through many rough times, not just sobriety, but also with several other problems, and i took her for granted. true friends are so hard to find and she was closer to me than my own sister. all i can do now is pray that her pain goes away and maybe one day she’ll forgive me. thanks all for letting me share. god bless!!!!
hey… thanx for the lyrics… this song is very touching because i wish that someone would have tried to talk to me all the time like that before my mistake.. it just makes me cry everytime i hear it and now i know the words.. thank you.
-TiNA
I agree with tina, i always wished someone gave enuf of a crap about me that they would stop me from doin something stupid and loved me. last nite i screwed up pretty bad… and no one was there for me.
thnx fo the lyrics!
best wishes
hey thnx for this web site lol yeh i spell it wrong too!! o well at least i can no the lyrics now bcoz its such a gr8 song!!
this song really hits meh hard man!
Thanks for posting the lyrics! I’m in my 20’s-I’ve lost many loved ones close to me and I suffer from bi-polar and I’ve hurt many friends and miss them so much especially Judy. Thanks again and I pray my friends will forgive me for screwing up our friendship! Thanks again for the lyrics.
this song really hits me, 6 months ago i tried to commit suicide, and no one was there for me but i met this girl and i just fell for her, and now shes falling down the wrong path and i am doing my best to catch her to save a life…..it saddens me not being able to catch her!
Thanks. I am a teacher planning a unit on teen suicide. This song came on and I made an immediate connection.
Hey thanks for the lyrics. I believe this is a awesome song. I hear it all the time on 99.1. Its on the top 20 for a Christian Station. I believe its amount a guy who lost his friend to sin, and tried to save him/her through God. The only way one can truely be saved is through salvation that HE along gives. Right?
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