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Song · 2004 · Pop rock

How to Save a Life

2004

★ 5.8 editorial score

Slade wrote it after mentoring a troubled teenager at a Denver camp, and Grey's Anatomy did the rest.

Genre

Subject

Helplessness Addiction Regret

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Quote · 1962

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, or morphine or idealism.”

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David Foster Wallace

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