Reach For The Sky

Album: Sex, Love And Rock 'N' Roll (2004)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about how you should live for the moment and try to make it last. It's about how life is so fragile and that "tomorrow may never come."
  • Social Distortion singer/guitarist Mike Ness went through a period of heroin addiction in the late '80s. This is one of the songs he wrote to talk about what he learned from that period in his life.

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  • Tim from Detroit, Mibeing a vet, this song was on my ipod non stop in iraq & afghan, to me it's about joining young not caring about anything, starting a family in the military, with a wifey and kids, then deploying. when you're in the sandbox yesterday dont matter, and tomorrows a mystery. that's why songs are great, you interpret them to your life. semper fi mac
  • Dan from Reno, NvThe song was also written as a tribute to former guitarist Den Dannel.
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