You Were Dying Poem

The song “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim Mcgraw is about a conversation between a man and his best friend who was dying. This song was written to explain how everyday should be lived to its fullest because any day could be your last. A man who just learned that he would soon die and was asked by his friend what he thought about it. His reply was that he did things that he wanted to through life like bull riding, skydiving and climbing the rocky mountains. These were all things that he had put off because he had always had the future to do them in. He also tried to live a better life. “I became the husband, that most the time I wasn’t.”(18-19) Tim is saying that he became a better husband to his wife. “I became the friend that a friend