Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying

(Album: Live Like You Were Dying (2004))

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He said I was in my early forties with a lot of life before me

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and a moment came that stopped me on a dime

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I spent most of the next days looking at the x-rays

Em                            D          /    C

talking ’bout the options and talkin’ ’bout sweet time

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I asked him when it sank in if this might really be the real end

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How’s it hit ‘cha when you get that kind of news, man what’cha do

G                                /        C

I went sky diving,     I went rocky mountain climbing

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I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu

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& I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter & I gave forgiveness I’d been denying

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& he said some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying

[Break] – G    C    Em    C

  G                                              Cadd9

He said I was finally the husband, that most the time I wasn’t

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And I became a friend, a friend would like to have

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And all of a sudden going fishin’, wasn’t such an imposition

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And I went three times that year I lost my dad

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Well I finally read the Good Book   & I took a good long hard look                                     G/D                   C          C                    D

at what I’d do if I could do it all again & then…

G                                /        C

I went sky diving,     I went rocky mountain climbing

           Em                           D          /     C

I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu

           G                         B7                                 Em                                   D

& I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter & I gave forgiveness I’d been denying

       C                                                                  D                                         

& he said some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying

G              B7                              G                                   Cadd9

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about what you’d do with it

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What could you do with it

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What could I do with it

             Cadd9

What would I do with it

A                                        D

I went sky diving,     I went rocky mountain climbing

           F#m           E                D

I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu

          A                         C#7                  F#m     E

& I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter & I watched an eagle as it was flying

          D                                               E                                                           A

& he said some day I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying

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To live like you were dying