UNHINGED (formerly in the skinner box): Tim McGraw

As a rule I don't care for Country Music. No, not a rule, in general I don't care for country.

But today, driving home, in the little Audi, with its 6 BOSE speakers 'cranked up' as juvenile delinquents would have said 30 years, ago I heard a song, and the lyrics hit me: "I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me," played. Ah, to be in my early 40s. Hell, mid 40s! That directional, 'before me,' before would be the first 40 years, a lot of life after me doesn't sound good tho. [ I also blasted 'she's real fine my

(earlier this evening paul was reading a job description and declared me too old, too dumb, and too something else -- I have forgotten the 3rd blow, so 'old' might be on the dot)

LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING is ...
Like that list of things before you die or turn 92 (which ever comes last). Read Don Quixote maybe (Cervantes wrote it in his late 50s -- there is hope).

Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying

Verse 1
He said I was in my early forties, with a lot of life before me
And one moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days, looking at the x-rays
Talking bout' the options and talking bout' sweet times.
I asked him when it sank in, that this might really be the real end
How's it hit 'cha when you get that kind of news?
Man what did ya do?
He said

Chorus
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

Verse 2
He said I was finally the husband, that most the time I wasn't
And I became a friend, a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden goin' fishin, wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
Well I finally read the good book, and I took a good long hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then

Chorus
I went skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Shu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

Bridge
Like tomorrow was the end
And ya got eternity to think about what to do with it
What should you do with it
What can I do with it
What would I do with it

Skydiving
I went rocky mountain climbing
I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu
And man I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I watched an eagle as it was flyin'
And he said some day I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dyin'

To live like you were dyin' (4x)

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over a million and half people have watched this video . . . but the live one is funner, more real...