Lyric discussion by Akakuro 

Has anyone mentioned that the submitted lyrics are WRONG? It's actually, "Yeah, you cried and you cried/ YOU SURVIVED, YOU SURVIVED."

this is a song about an older gay man explaining to a younger gay man that everything he has gone through before coming out and finding himself with someone new (and older) is pretty common.

the message, however, is more common: you have to embrace who you are and leave old judgments behind, because although we've all been put through some wringer or another, we just don't have that much time to be happy.

Akakuro, you're right, but it's a little irrelevant here. LA Rounder, that's entirely possible, but I think it's more a therapist. If it's the speaker saying, "Call safe" then it's more likely to be an experienced, cautious professional trying to be careful with a touchy problem

I think it's "he's alive, he's alive."

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