100 Years
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| "100 Years" | |||||
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| Single by Five for Fighting | |||||
| from the album The Battle for Everything | |||||
| Released | February 3, 2004 (CD Release) Single released on radio in late 2003 | ||||
| Format | Standard | ||||
| Recorded | 2003 | ||||
| Genre | Pop rock | ||||
| Length | 4:05 | ||||
| Label | Columbia/Aware | ||||
| Writer(s) | John Ondrasik (lyricist/composer) | ||||
| Producer | Bill Bottrell | ||||
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"100 Years" is the first single from the album The Battle for Everything released by Five for Fighting (John Ondrasik) in 2004.
The song is about a man who is 99 years old, about to turn 100. He looks back at his life to see whether he really "lived" it or not. The song's main theme is to never take life for granted, and all of the time we have on Earth is right now, so we should make the most of it. Another theme to the song is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
[edit] Chart performance
In December 2004, on the Billboard end-of-the-year music chart, "100 Years" was ranked at #77 for the year. "100 Years" was also the longest running #1 single of the year on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, staying at #1 for 12 weeks. The music video for "100 Years" placed at #32 on VH1's Top 40 Music Video Countdown of 2004, spending 18 weeks on VH1's weekly Top 20 countdown.
[edit] In Other Media
A dance/electronica remix of this song was created by DJ RB SaUCe and can be found on ReverbNation.
This song was used in season 1 episode 16 "Spirit in the Night" of the CW's hit series One Tree Hill
