All I Want Is a Life - Composition

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"All I Want Is a Life" is a song written by Stan Munsey, Tony Mullins, and Don Pfrimmer and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in January 1996 as the third single and partial title track to McGraw's album All I Want. The song peaked at number 5 in the United States[1] and at number 2 in Canada.

"All I Want Is a Life"

Single by Tim McGraw

from the album All I Want

Released

January 15, 1996

Recorded

1995

Genre

Country

Length

3:33

Label

Curb

Songwriter(s)

Stan Munsey
Tony Mullins
Don Pfrimmer

Producer(s)

Byron Gallimore
James Stroud

Tim McGraw singles chronology

"Can't Be Really Gone"
(1995)

"All I Want Is a Life"
(1996)

"She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart"
(1996)

Content

The narrator is tired of his everyday life and expresses an ambition for a better one.

Music video

The music video was directed and produced by Sherman Halsey. The video debuted on CMT's "Jammin' Country" on January 20, 1996. It features Tim McGraw performing the song with his band at a deserted circus, along with a bunch of clowns. At the beginning of the video, McGraw is seen walking through the desert, and showing a statue of a funny clown laughing.

Chart positions

"All I Want Is a Life" re-entered the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart as an official single at number 74 for the week of January 20, 1996.

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2]	2
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3]	5

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4]	37
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5]	68

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 227.
"Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2959." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. May 6, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
"Tim McGraw Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
"RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996". RPM. December 16, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
"Best of 1996: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.

v t e Tim McGraw singles
Discography
Tim McGraw	"What Room Was the Holiday In" "Welcome to the Club" "Memory Lane" "Two Steppin' Mind"
Not a Moment Too Soon	"Indian Outlaw" "Don't Take the Girl" "Down on the Farm" "Not a Moment Too Soon" "Refried Dreams"
All I Want	"I Like It, I Love It" "Can't Be Really Gone" "All I Want Is a Life" "She Never Lets It Go to Her Heart" "Maybe We Should Just Sleep on It"
Everywhere	"It's Your Love" "Everywhere" "Just to See You Smile" "One of These Days" "Where the Green Grass Grows" "For a Little While"
A Place in the Sun	"Please Remember Me" "Something Like That" "My Best Friend" "Some Things Never Change" "My Next Thirty Years"
Set This Circus Down	"Grown Men Don't Cry" "Angry All the Time" "The Cowboy in Me" "Unbroken"
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors	"Red Rag Top" "Tiny Dancer" "She's My Kind of Rain" "Real Good Man" "Watch the Wind Blow By"
Live Like You Were Dying	"Live Like You Were Dying" "Back When" "Drugs or Jesus" "Do You Want Fries with That" "My Old Friend"
Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2	"When the Stars Go Blue" "My Little Girl"
Let It Go	"Last Dollar (Fly Away)" "I Need You" "If You're Reading This" "Suspicions" "Kristofferson" "Let It Go" "Nothin' to Die For"
Southern Voice	"It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You" "Southern Voice" "Still"
Number One Hits	"Felt Good on My Lips"
Country Strong	"Me and Tennessee"
Emotional Traffic	"Better Than I Used to Be"
Two Lanes of Freedom	"Truck Yeah" "One of Those Nights" "Highway Don't Care" "Southern Girl"
Sundown Heaven Town	"Lookin' for That Girl" "Meanwhile Back at Mama's" "Shotgun Rider" "Diamond Rings and Old Barstools"
Damn Country Music	"Top of the World" "Humble and Kind" "How I'll Always Be"
The Rest of Our Life	"Speak to a Girl" "The Rest of Our Life"
Here on Earth	"I Called Mama" "Undivided" "7500 OBO"
Other songs	"Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me" "Let's Make Love" "Bring On the Rain" "Over and Over" "Like We Never Loved at All" "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" "Nine Lives" "Feel Like a Rock Star" "Lovin' Lately" "May We All" "The Ride" "California" "Neon Church" "Thought About You"

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