Over My Head And How To Save A Life

A Denver based band was formed in 2005 by former schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King unexpectedly bumped into each other at a local music store. The pair began a series of two-man jam sessions and soon expanded their lineup with two of Slade’s former bandmates, drummer Ben Wysocki and guitarist David Welsh. The band gained their fame when a local Denver radio station played their single Cable Car in 2004 (ciation) . Releasing their debut album in September of 2005, How To Save a Life, which consisted of a mix of pop rock tracks and power ballads. The album had a tremendous outcome thanks to its tracks “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and “How To Save a Life” which ultimately won them three billboard music awards in 2006 (ciation). The band went

I was starting ninth grade, and all of my friends were suddenly all splitting up and going down different paths. Some of those friends didn’t necessarily go down bad paths; they just simply weren’t paths that I would enjoy going down. Others, though, began high school at full force, spending their weekends at parties drinking and smoking. The friends I had for the past eight years of my life suddenly weren’t friends I wanted to have in my life anymore. At first I wasn’t exactly sure what to do about it. I didn’t know whether or not I should say anything to them, or whether or not I was actually the one over-exaggerating. At that point I actually did think that maybe I should just be like them and maybe everything would be okay, but I quickly learned that wasn’t the case. So I prayed, I prayed more than I ever had in my entire life. I prayed God would led me to do what was His will and not mine. I felt God tugging at my heart to confront them, and so I did. I eventually went up to my friends, trying to talk to them about the path they had chosen and about how there was a better plan for them. They didn’t seem to care at all. In fact, they were all so mad at me they stopped talking to me for a very long time. If they saw me, they were unbelievably mean to me; whispering things about me behind my back and sending me mean text messages. When this started

The song is written in third person, so it’s written as if The Fray was telling the story of a conversation he had heard before. The song begins with the speaker asking a man if they could talk. As the man sits down, the speaker addresses that the man seemed to go in a different direction than him in line sx by stating “As he goes left, you stay right” (The Fray). As the speaker begins to doubt himself at the end of the first verse, the middle begins with the speaker trying to convince the man that what he is doing isn’t what’s best for him. The speaker “lays down a list of what is wrong” t the man in hope that he realizes what he’s done. We seem to get the hint in lines twenty through twenty-one that the speaker is beginning to lose hope of saving this man when he repeats in both lines “and pray to God he hears you”, giving off the idea that the speaker may be having a struggle in getting the man to understand (The Fray). The climax begins in lines twenty-seven through thirty-four, when the man “begins to raise his voice” at the speaker (The Fray). The speaker then tells him to “drive until you lose the road or break with the one’s you’ve followed” which sort of gives us an insight that the problem may be partially caused because of the people he surrounds himself