Live before you die    (video)

 

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1. I was a little boy of 9 years old, the whole world in my hands,

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    tryin’ to toss that ball across the yard, game of catch with my old man.

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    He would always say, I'm sorry, every time he had to leave,

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    and I was much too young to understand when he would say to me :

 

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When you're young you always think the sun is gonna to shine,

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    there’ll come a day you’ll have to say hello to goodbye.

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    sit down, son, come take my hand, look me in the eye,

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take these words,       promise me, you'll live before you die.

 

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2. I was barely seventeen, summer of seventy-nine,

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    already I was feeling like I was running out of time.

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    I had this girl, we fell in love, or should I say that she had me,

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   that fateful night that changed our lives and made a memory.

 

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When you're young you always think the sun is gonna shine,

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    there’ll come a day you’ll have to say hello to goodbye.

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    She laid me down, she took my hand and looked me in the eye,

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and just before she kissed me, she said, we got to live before we die.

 

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+  Live before we die !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    You learn to love, to live, you fight and you forgive,

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    you learn what's wrong and right, you live before you die.    +  G - C

 

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3. I made mistakes, I caught some breaks, but I got no regrets,

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    there's some things I don't remember, but one thing I don't forget.

 

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When you're young you always think the sun is gonna shine,

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    one day you're gonna have to say hello to goodbye.

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    Shout it out, let someone somewhere know that you're alive,

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take these words        wear them well, live before you die !

 

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+ Live before you die, hey, live before you die.

 

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    You learn to love, to live, you fight and you forgive,

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    you face the darkest night, just live before you die !

 

    (Bon Jovi)