Better Life
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| "Better Life" | ||
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| Single by Keith Urban | ||
| from the album Be Here | ||
| Released | 2005 | |
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| Genre | Country | |
| Length | 4:42 | |
| Label | Capital Records Nashville | |
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Better Life is a #1 country song by Keith Urban written with Richard Marx. It was released in 2005 as the 4th single from Urban's 2004 album, Be Here. It spent six weeks atop Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. It was Urban's 7th #1 hit. The song went to #44 on Billboard's Hot 100. He also won a 2005 CMT Music Awards with it.
[edit] Commentary from Keith
BETTER LIFE (Richard Marx and Keith Urban): I became friends with Richard Marx a couple of years ago through a mutual acquaintance. I didn’t see that we would necessarily click musically, but I was reminded I wrote “But For The Grace of God” with two of the Go-Gos, so you never know. We wrote a couple of things and they were good, but just didn’t seem suitable for me. Then Richard said, “You should come out to the house.” He has a beautiful house in Chicago. I flew out there and I took my banjo, which seems to be a good luck charm for me. Richard got a little drum loop groove going and I started this banjo riff and the melody came out. We wrote “Better Life” that night. I thought of calling the album Better Life because everybody wants one.
