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This Is Your Life | ||||||||||||
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| Recording Artist: | Bryan Adams | ||||||||||||
| Writers: | Jim Vallance Bryan Adams |
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| Date Written: | January-March 2017, New York and London | ||||||||||||
| Released: | February 20, 2022 (Bryan Adams YouTube channel) | ||||||||||||
| Album: | Bryan Adams - Pretty Woman: The Musical (March 11, 2022) | ||||||||||||
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Bryan Adams: vocals, piano, guitar, bass, drums Jim Vallance: keyboards |
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| Produced by Bryan Adams. Arranged by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams. Recorded and mixed by Hayden Watson at The Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada. Mastered by Bob Ludwig. | |||||||||||||
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In fact, we wrote two different Country songs for this spot, approximately a year part, one titled "Why Me" and the other titled, "It Never Works Out That Way". I liked both songs, but the director had us write yet a third song. As someone once said, "Broadway" isn't writing, it' re-writing. |
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| Back-story: | "Pretty Woman: The Musical", opened in Chicago and New York in 2018, Hamburg Germany in 2019, London England in 2020 and Milan Italy in 2021. A USA touring production hit the road in 2021, stopping in every major American city and continuing into 2022, and a UK cast toured Engand, Ireland and Scotland for most of 2024. Bryan Adams and I spent three years writing the 21 songs that appear in the production ... a typical time-line for a Broadway show. A "cast album" was recorded in New York in 2018 with nine musicians and 19 singers. The audio above is Bryan's interpretation of "This Is Your Life", recorded 2021-2022 at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver Canada. |
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| Lyrics: | The first guy you loved was a loser
The second guy was even worse If there was a bum within fifty miles You were drawn to him like a curse You followed bum number three to L.A. He left you there on your own So there you were - no friends, no money Too ashamed to go home Ya, this is your life This is your life Take a look at your life You worked at a couple of fast-food joints Parked cars, did whatever you could That's when you met Kit She worked the streets She made it sound so good So one day you did it You cried the whole time You were coming apart at the seams It's not like anybody plans it - no It wasn't your childhood dream Ya, this is your life This is your life Take a look at your life Ain't it funny how the bad stuff Is so easy to believe You know, it wears you down And some days it really hurts If you really want to change things dig in and find a way So don’t let anyone else but you Define a woman's worth This is your life The story of your life This is your life The story of your life |
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