Tags: 2003  2004  Alternative-Rock  Beautiful  Foreman  Jon  Letdown  Meant-To-Live  Post-Grunge  Power-Ballad  Spider-Man-2  Switchfoot  The  
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Song: Meant To Live.Song by: Switchfoot (Band).Band Members: Jon Foreman, Tim Foreman, Chad Butler, Jerome Fontamillas and Drew Shirley.Album: The Beautiful Letdown, February 25, 2003.Song written by: Jon Foreman and Tim Foreman from the band of (Switchfoot).Lyrics inspird by: T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men".Sung by: Jon Foreman.Soundtrack: Spider-Man 2.Starring: Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker / Spider-Man and Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson.Directed by: Sam Raimi.Story written & developed by: Story written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon.US Theatrical Release Date: June 30, 2004.Distributed by: Columbia Pictures & Sony Pictures Entertainment.Song Record Label: Columbia Records & Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnly... to Live" is a Top-20 single by Alternative rock band Switchfoot. It climbed to #5 on the US Modern Rock chart, #7 on U.S. Top 40 radio, and No. 18 on the U.S. Hot 100. It is the first track on the group's 2003 major-label debut album "The Beautiful Letdown," and was also featured in a UK version of a Spider-Man 2 "inspired by" album. In April of 2005, the song was certified platinum. This was Switchfoot's first official single, and is considered their breakthrough into the mainstream.Lyrically this song was inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men". About the song, singer/writer Jon Foreman has said, "Maybe the kid in the song is me, hoping that I'm meant for more than arguments and failed attempts to fly. Something deep inside of me yearns for the beautiful, the true. I want more than what I've been sold; I want to live life". It also refers John Steinbeck novella "Of Mice and Men", in the lyric "Dreaming about Providence and whether mice or men have second tries." According to Jon Foreman, this song was also inspired by U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".There were three music videos made for this song. The first video features live performance footage, the second is a concept video depicting the band playing inside a house while the walls and insides are slowly being torn down, and a third video is mixed into clips from Spider-Man 2, and was released exclusively in the UK.The first two videos featured audio mixed a key higher than the album version.About Movie!Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, written by Alvin Sargent and developed by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, and Michael Chabon. It is the second film in the Spider-Man film franchise based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. It saw the return of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and James Franco as Harry Osborn.It is set two years after the original. It focuses on Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man. The main villain in this film is Dr. Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), who turns insane following a failed experiment and the death of his wife. Using his mechanical tentacles, Octavius is dubbed "Doctor Octopus" and threatens to endanger the lives of the people of New York City.The film was released on June 30, 2004 in the United States, and received mostly positive reviews from critics. It grossed over $783 million worldwide, and won an Academy Award for Visual Effects. .....Lyrics.....Fumbling his confidence And wond'ring why the world has passed him by Hoping that he's meant for more than arguments And failed attempts to fly, fly We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? (Somewhere we live inside) ~ 2X We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? Somewhere we live inside Dreaming about providence And whether mice or men have second tries Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open Maybe we're bent and broken, broken We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? (Somewhere we live inside) ~ 2XWe were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? Somewhere we live inside...~..... Instrumental Interlude .....~ (We want more than this world's got to offer) ~ 2XWe want more than the wars of our fathers And everything inside screams for second life, yeahhh! We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? We were meant to live for so much more Have we lost ourselves? We were meant to live We were meant to live.....End