Hanging By A Moment

Lifehouse lead singer Jason Wade wrote this song. When we asked him in 2017 what it means to be "hanging by a moment," he replied: "I just feel like my whole life has been a series of moments where you're just trying to hold on and not get swept away. I grew up all over the place - I lived in Hong Kong for a couple of years. I didn't grow up with any roots really, so in my teenage years when I started to write songs to try to interpret the earlier half of my life, it seemed we were just constantly in turbulence and moving and changing and shifting. And from that point on, when I wrote that song, it took us on this crazy, wild adventure. But, yeah, I would say it is about just trying to stay in the moment, stay present, and enjoy the moments as they're happening around you."

Wade claims he wrote this in about 5-10 minutes on acoustic guitar. Said Wade: "I remember just sitting on the couch in the studio and I heard the melody in my head while I was doing another vocal track, which is really weird, it'll kinda give you a headache. I don't recommend it, but anyway, I went into the other room and picked up a guitar and it just kind of happened, so from that moment on I learned when you have to write a song, when the melody is in your head."

This was the most-played song on US radio in 2001, owing much of its success to cross-generational appeal. Jason Wade was just 21 when it was released, and while many Lifehouse fans were his age, many more were older, earning the song airplay on both MTV and VH1, and also on Rock, Pop, and Adult Contemporary radio stations.