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Crowded House — Love This Life
Album: Temple of Low Men
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6.8

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Released: 1988
Length: 3:30
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Seal my fate
I get your tongue in the mail
No one is wise
Until they see how it lies
Love this life
Don't wait 'til the next one comes
Gonna pedal my faith
The wheels are still turning round, turn round

And maybe the day will come
When you'll never have to feel no pain
After all my complaining
Gonna love this life, gonna love this life
Love this life, love this life

And so they threw you in jail
Whatever you've done
It was a million to one
And don't you just love this life
When it's holding you down?
Gonna pedal my faith
The wheels are still turning round, turn round

So maybe the day will come
When you'll never have to feel no pain
After all my complaining
Gonna love this life, gonna love this life
Gonna love this life, gonna love this life
Gonna love

Here's something that you can do
Even if you think that I hate you
Stop your complaining
Leave me defenseless
When you love this life, gonna love this life
Gonna love this life, though you'll never know why
Gonna love this life, gonna love
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 rgio wrote:

Neil Finn is one of the great songwriters/composers of the alternative movement and is often overlooked in the dead zone between big hair and grunge.  



 In Australia and NZ he and the Crowdies as they're affectionally known are definitely very mainstream
Posted 4 weeks ago by Fishman    [ Reply ]
I get your tongue in the mail?!

Posted 4 years ago by Laptopdog    [ Reply ]
A bit more than Mellow in my view, but a delightful NZ to the world track! Class abounds! Xx mm
Posted 4 years ago by Matt_Maurer    [ Reply ]
 rgio wrote:
Neil Finn is one of the great songwriters/composers of the alternative movement and is often overlooked in the dead zone between big hair and grunge.  
 
Finn has a fantastic lifetime catalogue I think I have all of it - genius!
Posted 4 years ago by henryisland    [ Reply ]
Its the 30 May and on Islay its Ardbeg Day (whisky) so having a a dram, or two, and RP hits the spot with Crowded House!
Posted 4 years ago by Maurice1950    [ Reply ]
Neil Finn is one of the great songwriters/composers of the alternative movement and is often overlooked in the dead zone between big hair and grunge.  
Posted 4 years ago by rgio    [ Reply ]
Thank you, the Finns and all of the members of all of the bands they've been in, for some beautiful music.
Posted 6 years ago by meatmike    [ Reply ]
 Bridieboo wrote:
I adore Crowded House.  Love all their stuff.

 
When I hear folks comment "80s music sucked" I remind them of a couple things; 1) not all pop music comes from the US or UK and 2) bands like Crowded House put out great music and many didn't get enough US airplay (see comment #1)

I just had to elevate my rating to an 8 on this one.  LONG LIVE RP!!

Posted 6 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Take a genius Kiwi (or two at times), a sublime bassist and painter from Melbourne, and a wacky talented drummer, and cue it up.
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
A prophetic precursor to the emotional context void of non face to face communication. You could blow it back then, and even more so now.

Read handwritten letters from the 18th Century, or from soldiers in WW1 and see how far we have sunk in expressing ourselves.
Posted 7 years ago by Far    [ Reply ]
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
kind of ambiguous lyrics... what's he on about?

 
Hmmm....

I get your tongue in the mail
No one is wise
Until they see how it lies

I see what you mean :-) 

 
Posted 8 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
kind of ambiguous lyrics... what's he on about?
Posted 9 years ago by NoEnzLefttoSplit    [ Reply ]
Always enjoyed hearing big brother Tim on backing vocals for this tune.
Posted 10 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Love Crowded House ... lot of respect for Neil Finn too, he continues to experiment and explore on various projects. His brother Tim is a douche, good job he got booted out after Woodface.
Posted 10 years ago by peregrin    [ Reply ]
Don't mind a bit of the Crowdies now and again.
Posted 11 years ago by TerryS    [ Reply ]
I adore Crowded House.  Love all their stuff.
Posted 11 years ago by Bridieboo    [ Reply ]
One of my most favorite songs by CH and in general. Love this tune.
Posted 11 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Romeo's mundane comments aside ... Finn's vocals ARE easy on the ears. Or so good for the ears. Or whatever babble he/she always says.
Posted 12 years ago by michaelgmitchell    [ Reply ]
Nice choice Bill....
Posted 12 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Hey now hey now ...
Posted 13 years ago by laurie_keller    [ Reply ]
I underappreciated these guys back in the day. Now the more I hear them, the more I love them.
Posted 13 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
Was today the first play?
Posted 13 years ago by malvey254    [ Reply ]
Is there a more confident song writer who's lyrics reflect as much sensitivity as Mr. Finn's?
Posted 13 years ago by Sasha2001    [ Reply ]
Love that this song has a near God-Like rating yet has never been played.  This song has arguably my favorite outro of any song I've ever heard.  Hope it finds its way into the rotation.
Posted 15 years ago by malvey254    [ Reply ]