Dying To Live

Album: Proof of Life (2013)
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  • This is one of several songs on Proof Of Life about a life-altering moment in Scott Stapp's past, when fueled by drugs and paranoia, he jumped ten stories off a hotel ledge in Miami Beach and miraculously survived. This song was inspired by the Prayer of St. Francis. Stapp explained: "He wrote, 'It is in dying that we awake to eternal life.' 'Dying to Live' is my personalized version of that sacred text. I had to go through hell to get to heaven. I had to take that infamous fall - 'forty feet I had to fall from grace' - to find clarity. It all had to happen. So I find myself dying - 'dying to make up for lost time, dying to start this whole thing over, dying to see with brand new eyes, dying to love myself enough to just forgive.'"

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