Everybody's Gotta Live
# Everybody's Gotta Live

"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"; 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 and singer Mac Miller, simply titled "Everybody", was released on Miller's posthumous 2020 album Circles.

## 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. In 1974, a re-recording of "Everybody's Gotta Live" appeared on the album Reel to Real by Love.

## Reception

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."

## In popular culture

The version of the song by Love was featured in the 2019 film Jojo Rabbit.

