Explanation Of The Song 'How To Save A Life'

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How do you save a life? Just imagine it for a second. How many of you thought about a person struggling without physical pain? This is what the artist of the song “How to Save a Life” wrote the song for, for people in a dark place and need someone there for them. The artist of the song, Isaac Slade made this song after his experiences at a camp that he was invited to. This camp was made for troubled teens who needed help. Isaac listened to several teens and heard about all their problems and relationships that they had to break to get to where they are now. But why is this song important? Because it is sending a message to everyone, someone is always there for you, someone to listen to your problems, someone to always try to help you.
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The line “He smiles politely back at you, you stare politely right on through” implies that he sees you as a friend and as “you stare politely right on through “, it shows that you are serious. It shows that you are worried about your friend. The lines “You begin to wonder why you came” is also further implying the sadness, this is because I’ve interpreted the line as you trying so hard to help your friend, but they won’t accept what you say, they won’t accept your help. The song however ends with a calming and accomplished mood as they have “admitted to everything” or it can end with them saying “they’re just not the same”. Throughout the whole song though, the artist is showing a constant, calm voice, this is to show the care and compassion he has to his friend. He will never raise his voice to his friend, you don’t want to seem like an enemy, you want to be on their side. This is how everyone should be to their friends, they should always be on their side, never raising their voice. They should always be calm, this is to imply that they’re not angry with the other …show more content…
It does however use several words that mean sadness, for example “I lost a friend” is implying that they have lost a friend but in reality, the friend has become lost within his addiction or problem. One of the most repeated lines within the whole song “And I would have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life” is the most symbolic. This is because most people would imagine that the artist would stay up all night to save the teen, but rather if the artist knew what to do to help the teen he would stay up for as long as possible to save him. Although this is a very sad song due to the tone of the song, I found it also motivating. This is because of the tone the song was set at. The verses start off very slow to imply the sadness and then speeds up towards the chorus and in the chorus to increase the momentum and the

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