title: Everybody's Gotta Live
text: # 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.
  
  