“This is Your Life” by Switchfoot

"This is Your Life" is on The Beautiful Letdown, the fourth Switchfoot album, released on February 25, 2003, and the first they made for a major label. Jon Foreman wrote it alone, words and music; John Fields produced it with the band and recorded it, and Tom Lord-Alge mixed. The album was cut in about two weeks, with keyboardist Jerome Fontamillas on board for the first time, and it trades the band's earlier lo-fi sound for a glossier finish, working electronic touches and digital effects into alternative rock with a post-grunge edge.

Foreman built the record around the human condition and a restlessness with the way things are, preferring to ask questions rather than answer them, an approach he called Socratic. It shares the album with "Meant to Live" and "Dare You to Move", the two singles that carried it into the mainstream.

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