"Everybody's Gotta Live" was later re-recorded and released on the 1974 album Reel to Real by the rock band Love, a group in which Lee served as frontman.
[2][3][4] "Everybody's Gotta Live" was written, performed and recorded by Lee, and released in June 1972 as a 45-rpm disc single, with "Love Jumped Through My Window" as its B-side.
[6] From the A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed site: "An acoustic shuffle that builds in intensity, the cut is surely one of the finest things that Lee ever wrote and the kind of song that warrants purchasing this album if you were even a bit on the fence about it.
"[7] In 2022, Eoghan Lyng of Far Out Magazine called the song "[a] meditation on harmony," in which Lee "exposes the beauty of the world in a series of damning strokes.
Sunlight must always follow darkness [...] The composition remains one of Lee's most evocative and impactful, growing in popularity like the canon it represented.