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The Fray's Hit Song, How to Save a Life

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The Fray's hit song, 'How To Save a Life,' tells a story of a mentor, also a friend, who is trying to 'save a life' of a troubled youth. The story starts off with the teenager and this friend sitting down to have a talk about what is wrong in the teen?s life. The second line reads, 'he walks, you say sit down it's just a talk,' this showing anger and fear of what might be brought up in conversation, so he tries to run away from the problem. Although neither individual wants to have the talk, they both respect each other enough to be polite, 'He smiles politely back at you/

You stare politely right on through.' Then the narrator mentions a metaphorical 'window to your right/As he goes left and you stay right,' which is telling us, everything that is said to the teenager doesn't catch on in his mind. He believes there is nothing wrong, so he stays to the left instead of heading toward the window, or his escape, on the right. The first verse ends with, ?Between the lines of fear and blame/You begin to wonder why you came? which is telling us that the friend is having second though...

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