Live Like You Were Dyin

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He said I was in my ear-ly fort-ies
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with a lot of life be-fore me,when a
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mo-ment came that stoped me on a dime.

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I spent most of the next days
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look-ing at the x-rays and talking ‘bout
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the options and talking ‘bout the time

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I Asked him when it sank in
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That this might real-ly be the real end
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How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?

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I Went sky div-ing I went
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Rock-y moun-tain climb-ing, I went two point sev-en
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sec-onds on a bull named Fu Man-chu. And I
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