Love This Life
Neil Finn
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 till 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
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
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
There’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
Gotta love this life
Love this life though you’ll never know why
Gonna love this life
Gonna love
Song appears on:
Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men (1988 album)
Live: Fangradio broadcasts 2020-2021
“Mitchell Froom hates it when there’s something that’s really naively up. He likes to have a bitter comment in there.
At the end of Love This Life, I had originally written ‘Love them even if they hate you’ as a line. It’s quite a noble sort of thought. Doesn’t matter what they think of you, turn the other cheek.
Mitchell suggested changing it to ‘even if you think that I hate you,’ which is very bitter. It’s like you just set up this whole song and then all of a sudden, it’s got a twist. It’s like maybe I’m contemptuous of everybody. I allowed him to talk me into it.”