"How to save a life"-The Fray
To begin with, every time I've heard this song, I always had an image of a Friend talking to another friend about the usage of drug. The title, "How to save a life", clearly gives an image that the "friend" in the song is in danger that might effect his life. The mood of the song can be described as gloomy and a bit dark, which helps make a case that the song is about something bad. The song starts off with a friend trying to talk to another friend about something bad that a friend has done. "Some sort of window to the right, as he goes left and you say right" this phrase is very significant because the window can be interpreted as a source of light, or good, and the friend goes away to the left which means that he is avoiding the right(good, fix) of the situation, to stay left(continued usage of drug, or bad). As the song continues, the friend tries to deny what he has done which the other friend does not believe or grants him "innocence". When the friend does not admit to his usage, the other friend gives him a choice. The choices are to "drive until you love the road" which means continue using drugs until there is no road (Future) for him, or "Break with the ones you've followed", meaning stop using the drugs. "Ones you've followed" can be interpreted as the friends or company that he uses the drugs with. Given those choices, he will either admit to everything, or "say he's just not the same" which is basically saying there is no more of himself and what he used to be. The hook shows that the friend was not able to save his friend from continued usage of drug stating that he has "lost a friend".
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