Tom Smith - Life Is For Living

Song of the Day

Minnesota Public Radio

Music Commentary, Music

4.5 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Song of the Day is “Life Is For Living” from Tom Smith’s album There is Nothing in the Dark That Isn't There in the Light, out now.

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0:00.0	Hope when you can find a meaning,
0:13.0	Entwined like a figure of eight
0:18.0	Head in the clouds and your feet on the moon your eyes as they start to dilate life is for living
0:28.6	any way you want life is for living live it till it's gone.
0:41.3	Hope the ways on your shoulders, but your thirst could swallow a sea.
0:57.0	Put a hand on my back, share suffering, and breathe with me.
1:04.0	No one said it would be easy, all we pretend to be.
1:10.0	I hear you all day daydream a zoo climb, Redwood's a big soul.
1:16.6	There's nothing of fear here.
1:19.6	Open the door.
1:21.6	I hear you singing, life is for living Any way you want
1:30.2	Life is for living
1:34.2	Live it till it's gone
1:38.4	Live it till it's gone
1:42.8	Live it till it's gone Live it till it's gone
1:47.9	All we pretend to be
1:59.0	I hear you roll
2:00.7	Daydreamers you climb Redwood's a big soul All we pretend to be, I hear you roll.
2:05.0	Daydreamers you climb, redwoods your big soo.
2:09.4	There's nothing I fear here's open the door.
2:11.8	And I hear you singing.
2:33.3	Lighto, light, oh, lao, lao, ha, ha, ha. There's nothing to There's nothing to feel here There's nothing to fear here There's nothing to fear here
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