Music Pick: How To Save A Life

I'm tellin' you - I just can't seem to get away from this song. I've listened to it hundreds of times and I've played it here so you think I'd be sick of it by now.

What's cool is this song is still on the iTunes charts and sounds like it's going to be in the movie Reign Over Me this spring.

This song has had multiple meanings to me depending on where I'm at when I'm listening to it. I know The Fray had specific inspiration when they wrote it but that doesn't seem to apply to me here.

Here are the lyrics (revised - previous link had inappropriate advertising):

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
And 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

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

More on this later.
Peace.