Meant to Live

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This is the first song on Switchfoot’s album The Beautiful Letdown. This song is about life and the choices that we make that may lead to regret.

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Meant to Live Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bent for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly

[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

[Verse 2]
Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin' with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken

[Chorus]
Ah-we were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

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[Bridge]
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeah

[Chorus]
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more (We were meant to live)
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live (We were meant to live)
We were meant to live

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This is the first song on Switchfoot’s album The Beautiful Letdown.

This song is about life and the choices that we make that may lead to regret.

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What did Switchfoot say about "Meant to Live"?

A while back I read a TS Elliot poem called “The Hollow Men.” The imagery in the poem continues to haunt me: “we are the hollow men/ we are the stuffed men…”

I look at our planet and I see a horrible, beautiful world,where love and hate breathe the same air. This is where we wake up everyday; this is where we live. 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.

– Jon Foreman in a 2015 interview with ThoughtCo.

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