Meant to Live
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| Single by Switchfoot from the album The Beautiful Letdown and Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man 2 |
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| Released | 2003 (to radio) August 17, 2004 (CD Single) |
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| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Post-grunge | ||||
| Length | 3:25 | ||||
| Label | Columbia Records/Sony BMG | ||||
| Writer(s) | Jon Foreman Tim Foreman |
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| Producer | John Fields | ||||
| Certification | Platinum | ||||
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"Meant to Live" is a Top-20 single by Alternative rock band Switchfoot. It climbed to #5 on the US Modern Rock chart, #7 on U.S. Top 40 radio[1], and No. 18 on the U.S. Hot 100. It is the first track on the group's 2003 major-label debut 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 song was certified platinum. This was Switchfoot's first official single, and is considered their breakthrough into the mainstream.
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[edit] Song History/Meaning
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 meant 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". [2] It also refers John Steinbeck novella "Of Mice and Men", in the lyric "Dreaming about Providence and whether mice or men have second tries." According to Jon Foreman, this song was also inspired by U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". [3]
[edit] Music videos
There were three music videos made for this song. The first video features live performance footage, the second is a concept video depicting 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, and was released exclusively in the UK.
The first two videos featured audio mixed a key higher than the album version.
[edit] Track Listings
[edit] UK CD Single
- Meant to Live [Album Version]
- On Fire [Live]
- Beautiful Letdown [Live]
- Meant to Live [Multimedia Track] [1]
[edit] 7" Vinyl (bandfarm)
- Meant to Live [Album Version]
- Monday Comes Around [2]
[edit] Chart positions summary
| Chart | Position |
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| US Billboard Hot 100 | #18 |
| US Modern Rock Tracks | #5 |
| US Top 40 Mainstream | #7 [3] |
| US Mainstream Rock Tracks | #36 |
| Pop 100 | #5 |
| US Adult Top 40/Hot Adult Contemporary | #5 |
| US Adult Top 40/Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents | #2 |
| US Hot Digital Tracks | #12 |
[edit] References
[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
- Music Video
- Live Version Music Video
- Jon's thoughts on the song
- All Music review of the song
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