"Hang On to Your Life" is a song written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter and performed by The Guess Who.
The song is featured on their 1970 album, Share the Land.
[2] On the 8-track tape edition of Share the Land, the song was edited to make it a bit longer in order to fill out the timing on the first channel (a few extra measures appear before each verse).
In the chorus section, the phrase: "Oh Life", is repeated a few times, in an echo that fades falsely, depicting a heartbeat.
At the end of the album version Cummings recites verses 13-15 of Psalm 22.