Everybody's Gotta Live
{{Short description|Song written by Arthur Lee}}
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| type = single
| artist = Arthur Lee
| album = Vindicator
| B-side = Love Jumped Through My Window
| writer = Arthur Lee
| released = {{Start date|1972|06|01}}
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| genre = *Psychedelic rock
| length = 3:31
| label = A&M
| producer = *Arthur Lee
- Allan McDougall
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"Everybody's Gotta Live" is a song written by the American musician Arthur Lee. It was performed by Lee and released as a single in June 1972, coupled with the track "Love Jumped Through My Window";{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cEchAQAAIAAJ|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=1972|publisher=United States Copyright Office|access-date=April 15, 2022}} both tracks also appeared that year on Lee's album Vindicator.
"Everybody's Gotta Live" was later re-recorded and released on the 1974 album Reel to Real by the rock band Love, a group in which Lee served as frontman.
A cover version by rapper Mac Miller, simply titled "Everybody", was released on Miller's posthumous 2020 album Circles.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/18/mac-miller-circles-review|title=Mac Miller: Circles review – a last look inward for a complex talent|last=Empire|first=Kitty|date=January 18, 2020|website=The Guardian|access-date=April 15, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/who-is-arthur-lee-the-hippy-icon-mac-miller-covers-on-circles-2598942|title=Who is Arthur Lee, the hippy icon Mac Miller covers on 'Circles'?|last=Cooper|first=Leonie|date=January 20, 2020|website=NME|access-date=April 15, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/music/03/03/20/mac-millers-posthumous-circles-is-a-monument-to-the-late-musicians-lust-for-life|title=Mac Miller's posthumous 'Circles' is a monument to the late musician's lust for life|last=Pascual|first=Jam|date=March 3, 2020|website=ABS-CBNnews.com|access-date=April 15, 2022}}
Release
"Everybody's Gotta Live" was written, performed and recorded by Lee, and released in June 1972 as a 45-rpm disc single, with "Love Jumped Through My Window" as its B-side. Both tracks were also released that year on Lee's album Vindicator.{{cite magazine|date=July 1, 1972|title=Billboard FM Action|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT14|language=en|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Billboard Publications, Inc.|page=52|access-date=April 15, 2022}} In 1974, a re-recording of "Everybody's Gotta Live" appeared on the album Reel to Real by Love.{{cite magazine|date=November 16, 1974|title=Billboard's Top Album Picks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CSgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61|language=en|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Billboard Publications, Inc.|page=61|access-date=April 15, 2022}}
Reception
From the A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed site: "An acoustic shuffle that builds in intensity, the cut is surely one of the finest things that Lee ever wrote and the kind of song that warrants purchasing this album if you were even a bit on the fence about it. Direct, poetic, and communal in the best possible way, the cut is positively invigorating."{{Cite web |last=Griffith |first=Glenn |last2= |last3= |last4= |last5= |last6= |first6= |date=2015-11-17 |title=Everybody's Gotta Live: Remembering The Genius Of Arthur Lee Thanks To 2 New Love Reissues On High Moon Records |url=http://www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2015/11/everybodys-gotta-live-remembering.html?m=1 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed |language=en}}
In 2022, Eoghan Lyng of Far Out Magazine called the song "[a] meditation on harmony," in which Lee "exposes the beauty of the world in a series of damning strokes. Sunlight must always follow darkness [...] The composition remains one of Lee's most evocative and impactful, growing in popularity like the canon it represented."{{cite web|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/arthur-lee-perform-everybodys-gotta-live-in-1990/|title=Watch Arthur Lee perform 'Everybody's Gotta Live' in 1990|last=Lyng|first=Eoghan|date=February 21, 2022|website=Far Out Magazine|access-date=April 15, 2022}}
In popular culture
The version of the song by Love was featured in the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit.{{cite web |last=Griffith |first=Glenn |date=November 17, 2015 |title=Everybody's Gotta Live: Remembering The Genius Of Arthur Lee Thanks To 2 New Love Reissues On High Moon Records |url=http://www.apessimistisneverdisappointed.com/2015/11/everybodys-gotta-live-remembering.html?m=1 |access-date=November 17, 2015 |website=A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/jojo-rabbit-review-taika-waititi-2554204|title='Jojo Rabbit' review: Taika Waititi's hot streak continues|last=Wetherall|first=Greg|date=October 6, 2019|website=NME|access-date=April 15, 2022}}
The version of the song by Love was featured in the 2024 television series A Man on the Inside, season 1, episode 4.