"Everybody's Gotta Live" is a song written by the American musician Arthur Lee. It was performed by Lee and released as a single in June 1972, coupled with the track "Love Jumped Through My Window";[1] both tracks also appeared that year on Lee's album Vindicator.
"Everybody's Gotta Live" | |
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Single by Arthur Lee | |
from the album Vindicator | |
B-side | "Love Jumped Through My Window" |
Released | June 1, 1972 (1972-06-01) |
Length | 3:31 |
Songwriter(s) | Arthur Lee |
"Everybody's Gotta Live" was later re-recorded and released on the 1974 album Reel to Real by the rock band Love, a group in which Lee served as frontman.
A cover version by rapper and singer Mac Miller, simply titled "Everybody", was released on Miller's posthumous 2020 album Circles.[2][3][4]
"Everybody's Gotta Live" was written, performed and recorded by Lee, and released in June 1972 as a 45-rpm disc single, with "Love Jumped Through My Window" as its B-side.[1] Both tracks were also released that year on Lee's album Vindicator.[5] In 1974, a re-recording of "Everybody's Gotta Live" appeared on the album Reel to Real by Love.[6]
In 2022, Eoghan Lyng of Far Out Magazine called the song "[a] meditation on harmony", in which Lee "exposes the beauty of the world in a series of damning strokes. Sunlight must always follow darkness [...] The composition remains one of Lee's most evocative and impactful, growing in popularity like the canon it represented."[7]
The version of the song by Love was featured in the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit.[7][8]
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