2003Released
4:04

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Interesting facts and trivia about 100 Years. By Songfacts®.

This song is a simple reminder about how precious life is. How we should sink in every moment. How we should look up to what we have.

John Ondrasik wrote the lyrics about his life: when he was 15 he couldn't find a girl, at 22 he found the girl and got married, at 33 he had his first child. Ondrasik was born in 1965, so he was about 39 when the song was released. In his 2015 Songfacts interview, when we asked him about passing some of the milestones in the song, he replied: "As you can grow up through the song, I never tire of playing it. That said, living the bridge ['Half time goes by, suddenly you're wise...'] is certainly different than that second verse." As more the midlife crisis he predicted for age 45, Ondrasik said he "missed it by two years."

Among the uses of this song in popular culture: a commercial for JP Morgan Chase, on the TV shows Clubhouse, Smallville and Scrubs, as well as the last scenes of the final episode of JAG. It was also used in a tribute to Katie Couric on her last day on The Today Show.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of 100 Years.
GKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
121BPM

Album

The album 100 Years is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released 100 Years.
Aware/Columbia
(P) (P) 2003, 2004 Aware Records LLC

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