LIFE’S
LIKE A ROAD
RASCAL
FLATTS
SONGWRITER:
TOM COCHRANE
COUNTRY: U.
S. A.
ALBUM: CARS:
THE SOUNDTRACK
LABEL: A
& M
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2006
"Life Is a Highway" is a song written by Tom Cochrane, from
his 1991 album Mad Mad World. The song was Cochrane's most famous song,
becoming a number one hit in his native Canada. The song also peaked at number
six on the Billboard charts in the United States in 1992. The song has been
covered by Rascal Flatts for the Cars soundtrack, as well as by Chris LeDoux, Jerry
Jeff Walker, and Home Free.
In 2006, American country band Rascal Flatts recorded a cover of this
song for the Pixar animated film Cars , which was released on June 9, 2006. The
song sold a large quantity of digital downloads, leading to a #7 peak on the Billboard
Hot 100(one position lower than the Tom Cochrane original). In addition, the
cover was placed as a bonus track on later versions of the album Me and My Gang,
and also was included on their Greatest Hits Volume 1. This version also won
the "Favorite Song from a Movie" award at the 33rd People's Choice
Awards.
The instrumental of the Rascal Flatts' cover version was prominently
featured in the Top Gear: US Special, which aired February 11, 2007. The song
is included on the soundtrack for Lego Rock Band. It topped the 2 million mark
in paid downloads as of the chart dated March 28, 2009. As of March 2013, the
song has sold over 3 million copies in the US.
On July 14, 2015, Scott Walker, Republican Governor of Wisconsin,
launched his presidential campaign as Republican Party nominee in Waukesha,
Wisconsin using the song. Cochrane requested that it not be
used again.
Rascal Flatts is an American country band formed in Columbus, Ohio in
1999. It is composed of lead vocalist Gary LeVox, his second cousin Jay
DeMarcus on bass guitar, and Joe Don Rooney on guitar and banjo. DeMarcus is
also a brother-in-law of country music Singer James Otto, and formerly one-half
of the Christian music duo East to West.
From 2000 to 2010, they recorded for Disney Music Group's Lyric Street
Records. While on that label, they released seven albums, all of which have
been certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of
America(RIAA). In order of release, these albums are Rascal Flatts(2000), Melt (2002),
Feels Like Today(2004), Me and My Gang(2006), Still Feels Good(2007), Greatest
Hits Volume 1(2008) and Unstoppable(2009). After Lyric Street closed in 2010,
they moved to Big Machine Records, for which they have released five albums: Nothing
Like This(2010), Changed (2012), Rewind(2014), The Greatest Gift of All(2016),
and Back to Us(2017).
Their studio albums have accounted for more than 25 singles, of which 14
have reached No.1 on Billboard Hot Country Songs and/or Country Airplay. Their
longest-lasting No.1 single, a cover of Marcus Hummon's "Bless the Broken
Road", spent five weeks in that position in 2005. In 2005–06, "What
Hurts the Most" was No.1 on both the Hot Country Songs and Adult
Contemporary charts, and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Life's like a road that you travel on,
When there's one day here and the next day gone.
Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand,
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind.
There's a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won't haunt you anymore.
Where the brave are free and lovers soar,
Come ride with me to the distant shore.
We won't hesitate to break down the garden gate,
There's not much time left today.
Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.
Through all the cities and all these towns,
It's in my blood and it's all around.
I love you now like I loved you then,
This is the road and these are the hands.
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights.
The Khyber pass to Vancouver's lights.
Knock me down, get back up again,
You're in my blood I'm not a lonely man.
There's no load I can't hold
Road so rough this I know.
I'll be there when the light comes in,
Tell 'em we're survivors.
Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.
Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.
There was a distance between you and I.
A misunderstanding once but now
We look it in the eye.
There's no load I can't hold.
Road so rough this I know.
I'll be there when the light comes in,
Tell 'em we're survivors.
Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.
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