"The Meaning of Life" is a song released by the American punk rock band the Offspring.

It appears as the second track on their fourth studio album, Ixnay on the Hombre (1997), and was released as its third single.

[2] A music video was made in support of the single.

The video features a high-speed wheel chair race in the desert.

The race footage was interspersed with shots of lead singer Dexter Holland hanging upside down in a tree with a capuchin monkey.