| "My Life" | |
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| Song by Phil Ochs | |
| from the album Rehearsals for Retirement | |
| Published | 1969 |
| Released | 1969 |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 3:11 |
| Label | A&M |
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs |
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks |
| "My Life" | ||||
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 Promotional copy of "My Life" | ||||
| Single by Phil Ochs | ||||
| B-side | "The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles" | |||
| Released | 1969 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 3:11 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Phil Ochs | |||
| Producer(s) | Larry Marks | |||
| Phil Ochs singles chronology | ||||
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"My Life" is a 1969 song by Phil Ochs, an American singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s.
"My Life" is the fifth song on Rehearsals for Retirement , an album Ochs recorded in the aftermath of the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. [1] In the song, Ochs says that his life, which had once been a joy, had become like death to him. [2]
In "My Life", Ochs sings "Take everything I own/Take your tap from my phone/And leave my life alone." [3] Years after his death, it was revealed that the FBI had a file of nearly 500 pages on Ochs. [4]
