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Artist: The Fray
Suggested Track: How to Save a Life

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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
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 I pray to God he hears you

And 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
How to save a life
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The Fray
“Just a couple of kids who were up to no good” is how Isaac Slade, Joe King, Dave Welsh, and Ben Wysocki describe their Denver, Colorado, band. Formed in 2002 while Slade and King
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The Fray lyrics - 71 song lyrics sorted by album, including "How To Save A Life", "You Found Me", "Never Say Never".
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The Fray – How to Save a Life
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The Fray – You Found Me
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The Fray – Munich
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The Fray – Heartless
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The Fray – Syndicate
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The Fray – Vienna
“Vienna” is the 9th track from The Fray’s 2005 debut album How To Save A Life. It deals with endings, goodbyes, and lost friends.
The Fray – Hundred
[Verse 1] / The how I can't recall / But I'm staring at what once was the wall / Separating east and west / Now they meet amidst the broad daylight / [Chorus] / So this is where
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The Fray – Singing Low
Emerging with their first new track since February of 2014, The Fray performed “Singing Low” to live audiences during their summer concert series of 2016. Officially released on
The Fray – Dead Wrong
[Verse 1] / If only I knew what I know / I'd make it a point to say so / To everyone that got me here / And everyone that made it / [Chorus] / Clear I was dead wrong all along
The Fray – She Is
Opening track from The Fray’s 2005 debut album How To Save A Life.
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Bottom of the ninth inning / At which I stray through the crowd / First it was what I call quiet / Then it was biblically loud / You should have seen how they tumbled / You should
The Fray – 1961
“1961” is the sixth song on the Fray’s third album, Scars and Stories, and is meant to literally describe the tension between East and West Berlin, but it also uses this event as a
The Fray – Together
[Verse 1] / As the spring in its bloom / The summer stars and the moon / Come and dance with me my love / And we will be one / [Chorus] / We go together / I promise forever / Every
The Fray – The Fighter
In an interview with Isaac Slade and Joe King they explain the writing process and meaning of the song: Slade – “I went to Breckenridge and wrote by myself in a cabin up there for
The Fray – Absolute
[Verse 1] / I've seen this one before, the girl, she gets away / Everybody knows it, but no one tries to stop it / 'Cause she barely even knows him, but if she could see inside
The Fray – Little House
[Verse 1] / She doesn't look, she doesn't see / Opens up for nobody / Figures out, she figures out / Narrow line, she can't decide / Everything short of suicide / Never hurts
Staind – The Fray (2023)
[Verse 1] / I was close, I was so close / To everything that I could want / Now I'm cold, now I'm so cold / Everything I had is gone / [Pre-Chorus] / Holding on to suffering, won't
The Fray – Heartbeat
“Heartbeat” is the first single from The Fray’s third album Scars and Stories. It was inspired by a trip the Fray took to Rwanda. Lead singer Isaac Slade describes how: We were
Sorry – Hem of the Fray
[Verse 1] / No one is coming for you / In this budget hotel / In this makeshift saloon / On this highway to hell / No one is coming for you / On this beach far away / At the side
The Fray – Enough for Now
[Verse 1] / The daughter's father watches, quietly we assume / He's no longer with us, but he left this dusty room / In your name and it's an honor, it's a shame, but it's your
The Fray – Ungodly Hour
[Verse 1] / Don't talk, don't say a thing / 'Cause your eyes, they tell me more than your words / Don't go, don't leave me now / 'Cause they say the best way out is through / [
The Fray – Where the Story Ends
[Verse 1] / Trying not to lose my head, but I have never been this scared before / Tell you what I'll do instead, lay my body down on the floor / To forget what I've done
The Fray – Fall Away
[Verse 1] / You swear you recall nothing at all / That could make you come back down / You made up your mind to leave it all behind / Now you're forced to fight it out / [Chorus
The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car)
“Over My Head (Cable Car)” was The Fray’s debut single. Its success paved the way for their debut album How To Save A Life, and thrust the local Denver band into the national
The Fray – Why
[Verse 1] / How many times do I have to try to tell you / That I'm sorry for the things I've done / But when I start to try to tell you / That's when you have to tell me / "Hey
The Fray – Run for Your Life
A song The Fray band members, Isaac Slade and Joe King came out with out of “thin air” about twin sisters, one who dies in an accident and one that survives. This song is meant to
The Fray – Heaven Forbid
[Verse 1] / Twenty years, it's breaking you down / Now that you understand there's no one around / Take a breath, just take a seat / You're falling apart and tearing at the seams
The Fray – Maps
[Verse 1] / Pack up / I'm straight / Enough / [Pre-Chorus] / Oh say / Oh say, say / Oh say / Oh say, say, say / Oh say, say, say / [Chorus] / Wait, they don't love you like I love
From Ashes Rise – On the Fray
Black smoke rise and fill the blood red skies / Man made dust designed to blind our eyes / Screened illusions masked in blatant lies / Black smoke rise and fill the blood read
The Fray – Look After You
Isaac Slade wrote this song about Anna, his wife, when she was living in Australia.
The Fray – Happiness (Live at The Fillmore)
[Verse 1] / Happiness was just outside my window / I thought it'd crash blowing eighty miles an hour / But happiness is a little more like knocking / On your door, you just let it
The Fray – Rainy Zurich
In an interview Isaac Slade explained: “‘Rainy Zurich,’ I’ll let Joe tell most of it, but he wrote it in Zurich. It was this super cloudy, foggy day. I wrote a song that day in
The Fray – The Wind
[Verse 1] / Oh my God, I think I'm lost at sea / And these silent waves are my company / And I lost the line between the sky and sea / And I'm wondering will the wind ever come for
The Fray – Our Last Days
[Verse 1] / Sunset, hometown America, roads I used to run / These walls used to hold heroes black and white and gone / I can show you all the places that we used to go that ain't
The Fray – All at Once (Live)
[Verse 1] / There are certain people you just keep coming back to / She is right in front of you / You begin to wonder could you find a better one / Compared to her now, she's in
The Fray – Changing Tides
[Verse 1] / When the rain came / It washed us out to sea / I'm holdin' what I love / And she's holdin' on to me / It's no surprise / It brought me to my knees / You're never really
The Fray – Love Don't Die
“Love Don’t Die” was released on October 15, 2013 as the lead single for 2014’s Helios. The single marked a departure from the bands brighter, softer, and piano-driven songs
The Last Revel – Blind In The Fray
Dime store / Penny shore / Waiting for / So much more / Crying out / Calling code / Apologies / A boarding soul / She turned to me / Blind in the fray / Weight of this world / She
The Fray – Oceans Away
[Verse 1] / Figure since I'm so far gone, oceans away / I can lay my saber down today / I miss the words I love the words you did not say / I miss the kiss you never gave away / [
The Fray – Hurricane
[Verse 1] / She's so fierce and full of that fire, what's a boy to do / She yells and I crumble, she's got the power / She's barely five foot two / [Hook 1] / She's a hurricane
The Fray – Be the One
Every month, Q, a popular music magazine in the United Kingdom, has a challenge for a band to tackle. For the month of February, the magazine issued a challenge for the band “to
The Fray – Wherever This Goes
[Verse 1] / We could slow down, waste away in this town / Standing on the sidewalk, watching this parade / Or we could get out, pack our suitcase right now / Find ourselves a bus
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Scars & Stories by The Fray
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The Fray by The Fray
The Fray is the second studio album by The Fray released on February 3, 2009, through Epic Records; The follow up to their smash hit How To Save a Life debuted at number-one on the