"The Story of My Life" is a song by the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin from their second album Life on a Plate, released as a single on September 20, 1995 by Burning Heart Records. The CD single also includes "9 to 5" and "Dragster", which are b-sides from the album's recording sessions. These two songs were re-released on the 1999 compilation album The Melancholy Collection. An accompanying music video for "The Story of My Life" was also filmed and released.
"Story of My Life" is a 1990 song by Social Distortion, written by Mike Ness, which was released as a single and also appeared on their self-titled album as well as Live at the Roxy. The song describes a love interest he had as a teenager that he never really acted upon and years later he's looking back wistfully on how things have changed and how quickly his life (and the opportunity) has passed him by. A cover version of this song is playable on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.The popular refrain reads: :You only want to do what you think is right. :(It's the) Story of my life. The song never reached any of the major charts, but is considered one of the band's most well known and loved songs by fans.
"Story of My Life" is the first promo single from Smash Mouth's 2006 album Summer Girl.
The "Story Of My Life" music video was filmed in an episode in Season 6 of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.
The song has been used in promotion of Shrek the Third, the third movie in the Shrek series. This continues the tradition of Smash Mouth songs being used in Shrek movies as "All Star" and a cover of the Neil Diamond song "I'm a Believer" in the first Shrek movie.
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"The Story of My Life" is a popular song.
It was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and published in 1957.
The song became a 1957 hit for US country singer Marty Robbins, reaching #1 in the country chart and #15 on the Billboard 100.
In the UK, a version was also recorded by Michael Holliday, and reached #1 in 1958. It was also recorded that year by Alma Cogan.
