Meant To Live (Switchfoot) --with lyrics

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15 жыл бұрын

Meant To Live by Switchfoot
Lyrics:
Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bid 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
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]
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
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
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live

Пікірлер: 353

@ragnakak 6 жыл бұрын

This came out in 2003 but it is pure distilled 90s.

@GorgonSmash1973 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, this song popped in my head for no....damn.....reason, and while trying to find the name and artist of the song, I was actually thinking it was in the 90’s.

@dubskell42 4 жыл бұрын

@GordonSmash1973 Same!!

@Pulse589 4 жыл бұрын

@quachemo187 vintage 03??? lmao thats only 17 years ago

@emello4you 3 жыл бұрын

@quachemo187 Vintage 1983 maybe

@markocba 3 жыл бұрын

this is soooo 2003. Def not a "distilled" sound of the 90's.

@ThatKidBryan 8 жыл бұрын

I never really cared about this song growing up.. I remember it coming out my senior year in high school and just thinking meh. It's aiiiiiight. Here I am 12 years later finding so much more meaning to this song and it's lyrics than I ever thought possible. Funny how things come full circle.

@cynthiamartinez7861 6 жыл бұрын

ThatKidBryan I feel u... God wants more for us

@mikethaxton4935 5 жыл бұрын

wtf is meh ?

@mikethaxton4935 5 жыл бұрын

@Angry Trucker No I generally speak English not Pig Latin ! LOL and I graduated before you were born

@Homba420 4 жыл бұрын

If only more people would wake up to it's message.

@marccastillo2780 2 жыл бұрын

There is so much more to life then you could imagined

@lukasmanos7436 3 жыл бұрын

joji is such a cool sk8r boy

@epicfiend1999 5 жыл бұрын

"We want more than the wars of our fathers." Is definitely my favorite line in this song. I feel that it is widely applicable to the world today

@xravenx24fe 3 жыл бұрын

It's been applicable to humans probably for our entire history, war has always existed and continues to be a tragedy and even though 99% of us all agree, it's inescapable.

@sirgoosehonk2716 3 жыл бұрын

@@xravenx24fe it's not inescapable it's just accepted as a norm.

@ExtraordinaryFate 2 жыл бұрын

@@sirgoosehonk2716 It is unescapable. Good luck trying to escape war in some way or another never happening again.

@angbry8305 2 жыл бұрын

War is a racket. Gr8 book!

@CurvyAries 6 жыл бұрын

I remember being so excited to go out and buy this CD back in 2004 when I heard this song and I was not disappointed, their music is great. This song takes me back to a time in my life when things were a lot more simple.

@joshberry6915 8 жыл бұрын

This song will always transcend time.

@dickmelgren1071 5 жыл бұрын

So true this will never die

@SPADYMCGRADY 3 жыл бұрын

2002-2003 94.5 PST Is A Radio Station We Grew Up On With That Bee Station In The 90s.. This One Particular Song Took My Brain Back In A Warp I Can’t Stop.. My Mom Smiling & Laughing With Me, My First Mongoose Bike, My First PlayStation One, Being In 2nd Going To 3rd Grade, Eating Green Eggs & Ham, My Brothers 90 SkateBoard With Back Brakes On It, The Yo-Yo Contest.. Living A Fun Life. I Woke Up And This Song Came To Me.. Im 27 Going On 28, Song Came Out When I Was Like 6-7.. Thankyou God For Letting Me Cry These Memories Out.. This Song Really Hit Home, & Hard! REST IN PEACE MOM, ROCK ON! Straight Out Of Trenton, New Jersey! 💯💯💯

@CreateYourWorth 4 жыл бұрын

2020. Who's listening

@emadkhan3099 7 жыл бұрын

This song brings me back to the late 2000's in early high school. Time flies, but this just resonates with a sound that sounds like that era :)

@SwiftSidious 3 жыл бұрын

JOJI ? :D

@ayseakbyk9103 3 жыл бұрын

Yes omg

@zandie12 3 жыл бұрын

Lol yeah

@craigallen7980 8 жыл бұрын

One of Switchfoot's best! Still impacting after all these years!

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

I love listening to the start while wearing earbuds.

@corynthius8860 5 жыл бұрын

“Fumbling his confidence and wondering why the world has passed hum by...” Real life, real shit

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

Mhm

@brianwelton3651 6 жыл бұрын

this song has gotten me through a lot of mental battles who else can agree

@miller152 7 жыл бұрын

I have this on repeat, and i still get goosebumps every time i hear it. 10/10 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@janaemm1135 5 жыл бұрын

This song will never get old.

@Vivalarosa45 6 жыл бұрын

Still listening to this song in 2017. It's still and forever inspirational.

@choosensheep 6 жыл бұрын

My boy use to sing this song about 15 years ago when we was in the streets a running amuck ( it's was always odd because we was some young gangsters but deep inside we knew something wasn't right about this life) now fast forward 15 years later these words fly out my mouth " we was suppose to live for so much more but we lost ourselves " as I sit and realize we have a made a mess of our lives by making all the wrong decisions . Thank you Lord for redeeming and restoring what we destroy3d !

@unearthedtruths 5 жыл бұрын

I love this song because it says wake up, open your eyes, there is more to this than the physical world. I always thought this when I was young... now it's being revealed to me the more I go with in.

@dereckdintz7524 8 жыл бұрын

Something about it just gives u a certain feelin like. Everything's just going to be ok.

@Mmhashbrowns 7 жыл бұрын

Dereck Dintz yes

@vernonleon4873 7 жыл бұрын

I think the idea of this band is that it will be OK...with Jesus

@vernonleon4873 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I'm sorry. I made that statement sounding like I feel that way. I was being facetious but Switchfoot is very much a Christian band.

@Idkwhattoputhere-v1w 7 жыл бұрын

Vernon Leon fuck off. It's music. No one gives a flying fuck about god

@fujitsubo3323 7 жыл бұрын

King Stowe you will be judged one day and will regret those words.

@yonassamuel4082 2 жыл бұрын

I've been looking for this for years and YEARS. Thank you 😊

@chinojarjos 5 жыл бұрын

There two realities at war right now but only one will prevail! The kingdom will be given to its righteous King!

@leootherland7890 3 жыл бұрын

2020 and this song is making me cry for a time gone by. Some moment in time, in the song, in my dad's can, reading a d!#& beautiful book from the library. I read that book over and over and this song played. And now here we are and, f@$#, I miss those times.

@Trevokable 6 жыл бұрын

A few days ago I had a dream that took place when I was about 13 at the home I grew up in and I was looking at a box of my brother's Pokemon cards thinking "I wish I could go back and live my life from this point again, there's so much I would do differently". Right then this song started playing except in the dream it sounded like it said "I was meant to live for so much more". Had to search those lyrics to finally find out this is the song. Was surprised to see that this song was released in 2003, right around the year it was in my dream.

@baileycypher7040 5 жыл бұрын

every time I hear this song all I can think of is me probably around six years old waving my hands in the air jamming out as my dad blares this song down the road, good times

@Homba420 4 жыл бұрын

This song is so underrated. These guys were and are ahead of the times. If only more people would wake up.

@anonymous.t6649 5 жыл бұрын

Listening in 2019. Still one of the bests songs. It might not, but I hope this lives forever.

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

Not alone

@kyleshouse1 6 жыл бұрын

Listening in 2019. Yay for time travel!

@CreateYourWorth 4 жыл бұрын

Lol. Now it's 2019

@esaidelgado3650 8 жыл бұрын

never thought this song would mean anything till i got older

@DerNomade1871 7 жыл бұрын

Damn never thought I would find this song again

@shadowsblade40 3 жыл бұрын

Same dude I've been looking for this song for over 10 years lol

@legatobluesummers1994 7 жыл бұрын

This song has always spoken to me when I feel like I have possibly lost my way with God and my faith isn't what it used to be I will always believe but faith without works is dead

@daylenacosta1682 5 жыл бұрын

Love this song since I was in High school back in 2006. Now I still listen to it, 2019

@javiervalles7026 6 жыл бұрын

Inspiration for a healing heart!! 😊❤️😊❤️

@meesae3169 6 жыл бұрын

Here in 2018

@redacted6813 5 жыл бұрын

I'll do ya 1 better.

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

2019

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

@Pulse589 4 жыл бұрын

@@xyreace 2020...fuck uk

@crazyboy-hc2qb 3 жыл бұрын

Hey 2020 gang where u at

@slapu4free420 7 жыл бұрын

Listening in 2017 who else is with me 👍

@user-nx3vr7zr9u 7 жыл бұрын

mmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

@davidcastro3511 6 жыл бұрын

Woke af

@ayatrim9340 6 жыл бұрын

@DrPalden 6 жыл бұрын

Mee five

@LgWilly744 6 жыл бұрын

2018

@ElementalGeneral 4 жыл бұрын

Still a kicker!

@andrewmatthews9435 5 жыл бұрын

Who still listening in 2k19 where all my 90s babies @ ?!?

@gloop2419 6 жыл бұрын

saw them live, was amazing

@treedala 6 жыл бұрын

This song helped save me once

@krystinasheppard6757 6 жыл бұрын

Still listening in 2018 😍😍 anyone else?

@xyreace 5 жыл бұрын

Doing you 1 better

@danteuchiha7862 8 жыл бұрын

this song reminds me of a different time

@abbiphilippe7901 8 жыл бұрын

At first when I first heard this song i only thought of it as that a song but now im in high school 2nd year and I already know what i want in life. Wow time really does pass us by.

@emerginglobster2075 8 жыл бұрын

Wow you're a sophomore in high school, you must really understand life.

@smileyp4535 8 жыл бұрын

+EmergingLobster maybe they do, maybe it'll change maybe it wont

@emerginglobster2075 8 жыл бұрын

+SmiLey P It'll change when he realized he doesn't know shit about life, he's just a fuckin kid

@MW-tv2xj 7 жыл бұрын

+EmergingLobster just because YOU have no direction doesn't mean everyone else is like you. Some people were meant to live for more, some.

@britanyvance315 7 жыл бұрын

we were meant to live for someone who can help me out with the other side of things that are not in my opinion and does not accept responsibility for the use of the other hand if I can get it is not a big deal but it will be a bit of time in the morning to see you then I will have a great time and I am not able to make sure that you are doing well in your life and death of my life with you on this forum

@JonathanBarrow 4 жыл бұрын

Here in quarantine

@sophiejones2357 8 жыл бұрын

I love this song! The lyrics are amazing! And the guitar!!

@TraysThoughts 5 жыл бұрын

Got me through deployment in Afghanistan

@tyronehaworth8716 3 жыл бұрын

I know this might be year late but thank you for serving our country! 🙏

@TraysThoughts 3 жыл бұрын

@@tyronehaworth8716 Thanks man...It’s an honor

@ceruleanprotector6897 6 жыл бұрын

They they played this on the radio today and the memories of my past came flooding in and I sang whatever lyrics I could sing ^_^

@haydenrose866 7 жыл бұрын

To me, this song speaks a story Of how we are destined to Become connected to our Inner selves and seek ultimate satisfaction through a relationship with God, yet we seemingly Strive for the the temporary pleasures of the "American Dream" and fall short of true Happiness, hence the verses "We were meant to live for so much more".

@avarice8770 4 жыл бұрын

Still listening in July 2020.

@woahbroitsmagical 7 жыл бұрын

This song has been stuck in my head for months and I am so happy I finally found it.😁

@InuandKagomeForever 5 жыл бұрын

Song's almost 16 years old damn how time flies

@j.a.k.c9510 Жыл бұрын

20 now my boy

@thomaseakes5638 6 жыл бұрын

listening to in 2018, who else, but this song has such great meaning and motivation to do better and be better.

@Spookdog 3 жыл бұрын

this song hits harder as an adult

@jacobrcoll 3 жыл бұрын

Not to be that person but it is now 2020 and here I am coming back to this song, I'm sure anyone that sees this can relate

@quackzkustumz 7 жыл бұрын

I heard this song on the radio months ago and the opening music has been stuck in my head for literally months! Ive been trying to find it ever since and today i heard it on the radio and started typing some of the lyrics into google and i finally found it! Soo happy

@BKADAMSISABOSS 6 жыл бұрын

Just heard this on pandora after like 6 years and had to come here

@danieltheavatarmusic 6 жыл бұрын

Never cared much for this song growing up until i grew up and started realizing the actual meaning of it, the meaning is so true.

@tehgiestone6031 2 жыл бұрын

Growing up this was my favorite song

@tehgiestone6031 2 жыл бұрын

Obviously still is

@douglasweatherford2403 7 жыл бұрын

Introverts with potentials song

@brandonmerring9888 6 жыл бұрын

We live inside someone else until they come to thier senses

@DovakhiinDragonborn 6 жыл бұрын

Listening in 2018 like a boss

@anonymous.t6649 5 жыл бұрын

It's sad that all of the actually good people out there, either smart or artistic, just get passed by. Then criminals get the fame.. for doing bad things. Then they kinda let themselves go. They go to a job that pays. They lose themselves. They lose their dreams. That's what I think the song means.

@benjaminhernandez6814 7 жыл бұрын

Whether or not mice or men have second tries.. If a man has his house destroyed before winter, he would give up, but a mouse who has a destroyed home.. The mouse would keep going to survive. That lyric is pretty deep in meaning.

@noahsimmons4107 7 жыл бұрын

I was 16 years old...my girlfriend let me drive her car and her mom didn't like that and she called the cops on me...I was sitting in the back of the cop car and it was an amazing day..the weather..the everything...this song was playing quietly on the radio, I'll never forget hearing this song.

@noahsimmons4107 6 жыл бұрын

you or your handwriting, I heard it when I was arrested in the back of a cop car lol it was on the cops radio

@entrenched-seal-nation3382 4 жыл бұрын

This song is awesome

@johnjackson6483 6 жыл бұрын

Perfecr Synopsis of the human consciencesness, and existence!♾☥☤☮☯☬☭☨☩☧☊☋☌☿⚜⚝☽☾♃♄♅♆♇⚕⚚💲🛐♈♉♋♋♌♍♎♏♐♑♒♓⚳⚴⚵⚷⚸⚹⚺🔯⚖⚛🚀🌋🌍⏳

@tyhilton6427 6 жыл бұрын

Listening in 2019, who else?

@tapioca7262 6 жыл бұрын

Holy shit, isn't this a classic, funny this ended up in my recommended. I forgot I used to listen to this when I was a kid lmao

@parklecbumusic 3 жыл бұрын

2020 peeps! we are so meant to live for so much more than this pandemic

@intej3r 6 жыл бұрын

still going strong in 2018

@peaches2945 4 жыл бұрын

Luv this

@dodgeblock1753 8 жыл бұрын

this song just reminds me of like looking back and then jumping to the future we were meant to live for so much more but we lost ourselves it's like saying we were meant to live for are dreams but we lost our dreams and aspirations and took working for some dick head boss

@jeffreyreardon7487 8 жыл бұрын

or, just setting in general. or, f****n drugs and all the rest pop culture tells you that's cool

@Idkwhattoputhere-v1w 7 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Reardon lol depends on what drugs. I love how you censored fuck...lol

@jeffreyreardon7487 7 жыл бұрын

Cheers

@Remiii0 6 жыл бұрын

Broooo..this gave me chills..your so right.. >~

@anonymous.t6649 5 жыл бұрын

This comment is underrated and true.

@mariem8705 4 жыл бұрын

This song randomly popped into my head. I don’t mind though.

@isabellejaramillo8217 9 жыл бұрын

This song is awesome.

@The_King_Kaden 8 жыл бұрын

It's so true love switch foot one of my favorites with DC Talk

@ahoymiggy2370 7 жыл бұрын

2017 and still 🔥🔥

@madelynndesposito6814 6 жыл бұрын

Always blast this when it comes on the radio

@TheSneed09 9 жыл бұрын

Perfect!

@Jo_jo409 8 жыл бұрын

Welp looks like when I go home, I'm playing this song in the guitar!

@yuhgirlabbie8332 8 жыл бұрын

this is such a great song 👍👍👍

@user-xs9rn1bc4o 8 жыл бұрын

listening in 2016 Who else?

@thefitness-fool826 8 жыл бұрын

please im listening to this in the year 6000 ad when mutant fish men have taken over the surface so now humanity has to live underground for survival

@Creamegg64 8 жыл бұрын

moi, and from the funniest way haha

@chevykillr1116 8 жыл бұрын

all the time

@2shortfresh 7 жыл бұрын

still bumpin

@115Harvester 7 жыл бұрын

2017 fam

@chevykillr1116 8 жыл бұрын

i listen to it all the time

@ryansmith7208 7 жыл бұрын

"It's like what Switchfoot said, we were meant to live." - Shai Linne, In Adam all die

@bobbyjohnson1605 6 жыл бұрын

This song reminds me of my first love and what we where meant to be but we lost ourselves 💔

@joedaniel9984 4 жыл бұрын

She hates you :)

@solafide4054 5 жыл бұрын

2019 anyone!?

@sesshomaru880 6 жыл бұрын

Heading back in time BRB

@jacobhelser6119 2 ай бұрын

I love my friends.

@leemcpherson9768 Жыл бұрын

We were more than the wars of our fathers And everything inside screams for second life Take a minute to take that in

@chuckandy7602 6 жыл бұрын

I remember drinking at a pow wow..missing all weekend from friday to sunday..how much i really wanted to quit drinking..on a sunday..after seeing all those beautiful women that were sober..smiling at me..