Meant to Live
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| "Meant to Live" | ||
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| Single by Switchfoot | ||
| from the album The Beautiful Letdown | ||
| Released | 2003 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | ||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 3 min 20 s | |
| Label | Sony BMG | |
| Writer(s) | Jon Foreman Tim Foreman |
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| Producer(s) | John Fields | |
| Certification | Platinum | |
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#5 (US Modern Rock Tracks) |
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| Switchfoot singles chronology | ||
| none | "Meant to Live" (2003) |
"Dare You to Move" (2004) |
"Meant to Live" is a Top-20 single by Post-grunge band Switchfoot, which climbed to #5 on the US Modern Rock chart. It debuted on the group's 2003 album "The Beautiful Letdown," and was also featured in a UK version of a Spider-Man 2 "inspired by" album. In April of 2005, the single "Meant to Live" was certified platinum. This was Switchfoot's first mainstream single.
Lyrically this song was inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men". About the song, singer/writer Jon Foreman has said, "Maybe the kid in the song is me, hoping that I'm bent for more than arguments and failed attempts to fly. Something deep inside of me yearns for the beautiful, the true. I want more than what I've been sold; I want to live life". [1]
[edit] Music videos
There were three music videos made for this song. The first is a live performance, the second video depicted the band playing inside a house while the walls and insides are slowly being torn down, and a third video is mixed into clips from Spider-Man 2.
[edit] Vinyl
This song was also released on a 7" vinyl record. On the B side is the song "Monday Comes Around" which was cut from "The Beautiful Letdown", and is otherwise an unreleased song.
[edit] External links
- Switchfoot.com
- Listen to the song
- Watch the video
- Jon's thoughts on the song
- All Music review of the song
| Switchfoot |
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| Jon Foreman – Tim Foreman – Chad Butler – Jerome Fontamillas – Drew Shirley |
| Discography |
| Albums: The Legend of Chin – New Way to Be Human – Learning to Breathe – The Beautiful Letdown – Nothing Is Sound – Oh! Gravity. |
| Singles: Meant to Live – Dare You to Move – This Is Your Life – Stars – We Are One Tonight - Oh! Gravity. - Awakening |
