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"Give Life A Try" was featured in the Season Twenty-One episode, "Put It Down".

Background[]

Cartman discovers that people care more about distracted driving than suicide prevention. To do one better than the Distracted Driving Awareness group, he sings this song.

In "Splatty Tomato", he tries (and fails) to get people to sing this so Heidi won't break up with him.

Lyrics[]

I've been feelin' sad, I've been bein' sad,
Can't talk to my mom, don't even have a dad.
I can't go on. What is livin' for?
My heart screams "I DON'T WANNA LIVE NO MORE!"
[joined by a chorus of kids that are prerecorded on a boombox]
Eric, we don't want you to die, Eric. Give life a try.
Eric, we don't want you to die, Eric. Oh God no, Eric.
I don't wanna live no more, no more, no more, no more.
[walks up to a boy and uses him as a ventriloquist puppet]
But Eric, we don't want you to die.
You're so kewl, we'd be sad at school.
[walks away and goes back to his normal voice]
Yeah, but you guys, you don't understand.
With my girlfriend, it's like I'm livin' in quicksand
Conflicting thoughts, I need a battered wife shelter.
My girlfriend is messed up, but all I wanna do is help her.
I'm suffocatin', I'm drowning in sorrow.
Gonna kill myself, probably around 2:30 tomorrow.
[with chorus]
But Eric, we don't want you to die, Eric. Give life a try.
[solo] Everybody!
[chorus a Capella] Eric, we don't want you to die, Eric. Oh God no, Eric.
But it's so hard!
Eric, we don't want you to die

Trivia[]

  • This song is a parody of Logic's "1-800-273-8255", which also deals with suicide prevention.


Songs from Season Twenty-One
1980s Music Montage | A Witch Pursuit Thing | Barbershop Quartet | Brick In Yo Face | Everybody Have Fun Tonight | Give Life A Try | He Kissed Me | Hokey Pokey | Hold My Hand | Humble | I Want Candy | (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right | Look What You Made Me Do | Put It Down | Stressed | The Number of the Beast | The Wheels on the Bus | They Got Me Locked Up In Here | Unfaithful | Whistle

See also: List of Songs | List of Minor Characters from Season Twenty-One | Season Twenty-One

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