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Backstory:

  Years ago I worked in a nursing home on the night shift. One of my patients was a new man that had just been admitted with cancer named Joe... I remember he was so sweet and so kind. He had the cutest laugh and it was so infectious and he loved to talk...especially about God. 
I asked him one night if he was scared of dying, and his answer just brought me to tears because it was such a beautiful answer and yet so sad.
We became friends and I told him that someday I was going to write a song about him and I did... But in my mind as I was writing the song I always pictured a video where it was a male nurse who would stop by Joe's room on the night shift and talk with him...
That was over 20 years ago and I have never forgotten Joe.
                                                                                                                                                                            

Lyrics:

                                                  
LIVE ENOUGH
Tina Tufts-May

						 

(VERSE 1) 

JOE ARRIVED AT THE NURSING HOME WITH ONLY - SIX MONTHS TO GO
HE’D BATTLED ALL HIS DEMONS - BUT HIS BODY JUST SAID NO
HE WAS TIRED AND I TOOK CARE OF HIM - WE TALKED  FOR HOURS ON THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT
I ASKED HIM ONCE IN THAT TIME WE SHARED, “HEY JOE....ARE YOU SCARED? “

WELL HE GRABBED MY HAND AS HE – STARED ACROSS THE ROOM
I COULD SEE THE TEARS FORMIN’ AS HE SAID, “THIS CAME TO SOON…
BUT I GUESS THE BED YOU MAKE IN LIFE IS WHERE IT ALL COMES TO AN END
AND ALL YOU HAVE ARE FRAGILE MOMENTS - UNTIL THE GOOD LORD TAKES WHAT’S LEFT…(BUT)


(CHORUS)

“I’M NOT AFRAID TO TAKE MY LAST BREATH
I DON’T HAVE ONE DOUBT GOD’S WAITING THERE BUT WHEN-
HE ASKS ME, “ DO YOU HAVE REGRETS?”
WELL I’M AFRAID I’LL HAVE JUST ONE.....(pause)					
THAT I DIDN’T LIVE ENOUGH..”

(VERSE 2)

I ASKED, “HEY MAN,  WHAT DO YOU MEAN? YOU’RE TWICE MY AGE HITTIN’ EIGHTY THREE”
HE SAID, “ALL THAT TIME DON’T MATTER NONE, IF YOU WASTE IT NEVER KNOWIN’ LOVE...

I WAS A MAN AFRAID TO TAKE A RISK - NEVER GAVE MY HEART- NEVER HAD NO KIDS
NOW I’D  -TRADE MY SOUL - ‘CAUSE I KNOW – WHAT I LOST LETTIN’ ALL THOSE CHANCES GO....(BUT)

(REPEAT CHORUS)

(BRIDGE)

SO NOW I’M TELLIN’ YOU – MAKE SURE THAT YOU
HAVE THE COURAGE TO  NEVER KNOW 
WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE LIKE ME
A MAN WHO LEAVES THIS WORLD ALONE

‘CAUSE WHEN HE ASKS ME , DO YA HAVE REGRETS
I’M AFRAID I’LL HAVE JUST ONE…
(SPOKEN) SON REMEMBER ME….
REMEMBER ME….AND LIVE ENOUGH…