"Life Is a Flower" | ||||
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Single by Ace of Base | ||||
from the album Flowers | ||||
B-side | "No Good Lover" | |||
Released | 6 April 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
Length | 3:47 | |||
Label | Mega | |||
Songwriter(s) | Jonas "Joker" Berggren | |||
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Ace of Base singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Life Is a Flower" on YouTube |
"Life Is a Flower" is a song by the Swedish group Ace of Base, released in Europe on 6 April 1998 by Mega Records as the first single from the group's third album, Flowers (1998). The song peaked at number-one in Hungary and was a top-ten hit in Denmark, Finland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the UK. In the US, it was released with different lyrics, titled "Whenever You're Near Me", and in a different key. "Life Is a Flower" was certified silver in the UK by the BPI. Jonas Berggren, writer of the song, described it as is his greatest Ace of Base song in a 2015 interview.[1]