"The Secret of Life" is a song written and originally recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters.

[3] It would also reach the runner-up spot of the Canadian RPM Country Tracks and the top-fifty of the Billboard Hot 100.

[7] In the book The Women of Country Music, they described the lyrics as "closely linked to philosophical contemplation about the nature of love, focusing more broadly on that which is significant in life in general.

The night before the video was to be shot, the original location for the bar that the directors scouted out had a fire and burned.

The Palace Saloon in Fernandina Beach, Florida, located on Amelia Island suffered extensive damage to the interior only.

The interior of the saloon was rebuilt and remains open to this day and is billed as "Florida's oldest continuously operating bar."

Paulette Flowers of the Portsmouth Daily Times said the single showed a more mature and happier version of Hill.