"Better Life" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban.

The mid-to-uptempo song is driven by a chugging banjo part set against a distinctive drum pattern.

The message of an optimistic future prevailing over current struggles pervades the lyrics, summarized by the chorus.

It shows Urban and his band performing the song in a Los Angeles culvert (filmed at the Los Angeles River bridge, where several music videos across many different music genres have been filmed at), intercut with scenes of a struggling young pair of lovers having their ups and downs and finally ending up in the culvert to watch Urban perform.

Urban closed that awards show with a live performance of the song, featuring a long interpolation of Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising" and backing vocals from a large choir consisting of displaced persons from the previous summer's Hurricane Katrina.