| Life Gets Away | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Clint Black |
| Album: | One Emotion |
| B-Side: | The Kid |
| Released: | October 9, 1995 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:56 |
| Label: | RCA Nashville |
| Producer: | James Stroud Clint Black |
| Prev Title: | One Emotion |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Like the Rain |
| Next Year: | 1996 |
"Life Gets Away" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black. It was released in October 1995 as the fifth and final single from Black's album One Emotion. The song reached number 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in December 1995[1] and number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.[2] It was written by Black, Hayden Nicholas and Thom Schuyler.
Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the production is "lively with an anthemic feel, but the meat of the song is in the undeniable truth of the lyrics: 'Life gets away from us all.'"[3]
"Life Gets Away" debuted at number 64 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 14, 1995.