“Pink Life”
Sep 07 2005 Wed
7:59 pm PHT
My search for this song is actually quite a tale in itself. It is a piece of female vocal house music that I heard on the radio (99.5 RT’s On the Decks) a few weekends ago. I instantly liked it and tried to listen to the lyrics so I can research more about it on the Web. Searching proved futile since I didn’t find any lyrics matching what I heard. So I relegated the song to the back burner for future reference.
Then about two weekends ago, while I was with my friends at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Alabang Town Center, I heard the song again amidst a playlist of house and chillout music (including the infamous “Ever After”). This time, I listened to the words more carefully which definitely made me look inattentive and with my mind up in the clouds to my friends.
So when I got home, I Googled the lyrics once more and found a bunch of blog posts (like this and this and that) that gave me the title ("Pink Life”) and complete lyrics (still maybe incorrect). Here’s the chorus:
Always follow what’s in your heart
Always listen to what’s inside
Always fly high and don’t come down
And don’t come down
Push yourself far over the limit
Push your mind I had with your spirit
Push it well, you never thought you could go right
And never come down
But still no artist!
This blog post says that the song is by someone or some group named Yelli, but there’s no indication that it exists.
I searched for the song in my usual music reference sites (Discogs.com, Perfect Beat, and the AMG AllMusic) but I only get this rock song titled “The Pink Life”.
General Google searching brings up a clue: “Pink Life” might have been by an artist named Gyskard, but all the links I found only brought me to some Russian site selling MP3s.
Not to be defeated, I finally e-mailed DJ David of On the Decks and asked him about the song. He confirmed that the artist is indeed Gyskard and that the song was released in late 2003.
So armed with this new knowledge, I finally came up with this page on Juno Records, which seems to have the only “official” info on the song. You can listen to the samples on that page; one is the original version and the other is the unappealing 70s disco version.
Like many of the songs I like, I hear the song in many places again. Last Friday, a friend of mine called me up after weeks of not communicating, and what does he have playing in the background? Yep, “Pink Life.” I also heard the song playing in a bar somewhere in Manila, too.
And I find it all weird since this song is quite obscure. You can’t find it on the Apple iTunes Music Store, MSN Music, and Yahoo! Music. And since I doubt I can obtain the music through ordinary means, I resorted to downloading it off a network.
One mystery I have left is why all the lyrics results page I got seem to all come from Filipino blogs. I got a clue, but I have yet to confirm, that the song is included in the local Smirnoff Unleash compilation that you can find at various Tower Records and Music One stores. That might explain it.
Anyway, by posting this on my blog, I hope to help some other poor soul fishing for information on this song. Like this person who commented on one of the blog posts I’ve linked to above.
Update: Yep, it’s in the Smirnoff album according to benj, and I’ve confirmed it through my own field inspection. 
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On 8:27 p.m., 7 Sep 2005, benj wrote:
The artist is Gyskard. The artist is like Russian, but I can’t find their space in cyberspace. It is track 1 @ Smirnoff Unleash Album. It is an inexpensive buy 250.00 bucks, 25 pesos cheaper compared to tower and music1.
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On 11:29 p.m., 7 Sep 2005, seav wrote:
Thanks for that info! I actually confirmed it myself right after posting this entry when I swung by the nearest record store and found the Smirnoff CD, which I bought for 250 bucks, as you’ve said.
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On 9:34 a.m., 12 Sep 2005, chay wrote:
got my smirnoff unleash album for free while dining at trio (at the fort). they had this promo when you order four bottles of smirnoff ice, you get to choose between a smirnoff shirt or the cd. had no regrets choosing the cd.
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On 4:47 a.m., 13 Sep 2005, ja wrote:
Hi! I also had the same frustrating dilemma as yours, though mine was not as prolonged. I’ve been hearing “pink life” in several bars, but I tried looking for it only when my gf prompted me to download it last sat when it played on her car radio. With the clear lyrics noted, I thought it would be easy. Yesterday, I googled the lyrics, and to my surprise, no solid hit! After intermittent googling that totalled 5 hrs (which included clue-sniffing in blogs and forums), I ended up in the juno web site. I saw the sample links, and hoped that I will hear the uplifting sound I’m looking for. Bingo! I searched for artist Gyskard in limewire, and only 1 hit (Modem pa!). I downloaded anyways..
If I only came across your blog post earlier, I could’ve saved time and effort in getting the song. Talk about mocking irony, i reached your blog a few seconds after hitting the download button in limewire. But I’m glad I found someone who shares a similar quest for this inconceivably rare song. You know, the delight is like that from finding a rare treasure (that doesn’t really seem rare at first)
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On 6:42 p.m., 13 Sep 2005, seav wrote:
chay, lucky you getting the cd. how did you guys decide who gets to keep the cd? (i assume you were with friends?)
ja, i’m glad to hear i’m not the only one searching futilely for this song. ang tiyaga mo… i’m sure i never spent a total of 5 hours googling for the song. but yeah, the music clips at the juno website definitely confirms the song is by Gyskard.
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On 9:45 p.m., 21 Sep 2005, rai wrote:
can anyone post the complete lyrics of pink life here? ive been dying to have it…thanks!!!
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On 11:35 p.m., 21 Sep 2005, seav wrote:
you, <points above>, please learn to read. i’ve already linked to blog posts that contain transcribed lyrics.
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On 5:59 p.m., 22 Sep 2005, rai wrote:
sorry….just getting started with the computer…thanks though….
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On 1:00 p.m., 24 Sep 2005, kat wrote:
i have been searching and searching for this song ever since i heard it playing in a boutique a couple of months back. i’ve been getting my friends to download it for me but it’s no surprise they couldn’t—my paltry efforts to sing the chorus was definitely NOT very helpful. i finally found out the title of the song when i heard it playing in a bar where my friend was dj-ing but still no singer. thanks for ending my search!:)
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On 6:36 p.m., 24 Sep 2005, seav wrote:
kat, glad to be of help. that’s why i posted this article.
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On 10:52 p.m., 24 Sep 2005, fullview wrote:
Darned its my turn to look for that song…
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On 11:41 a.m., 26 Sep 2005, seav wrote:
fullview, good luck. i’m sure the P2P networks have it but good luck on finding such a file having 2 or more sources.
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On 4:28 a.m., 12 Oct 2005, rowen wrote:
waahhh!!! i’ve been hearing this song since i went to puerto galera last summer. and yes, i’ve been searching for its title for ages! but not until i came across this guy in greenhills putting mp3s on celfones just a week ago. i asked for the title and decided to just download it on the net. but another dilemma, nobody has it on any of my file sharing program. looking for the lyrics is just as hard. but tnx for the links.
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On 8:50 p.m., 4 Nov 2005, peds wrote:
can anyone post a list of the songs in Smirnoff CD? kinda interesting….
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On 11:31 a.m., 8 Nov 2005, aldy wrote:
i just had to comment kase ganon rin talaga nangyari sa kin.. i heard the song somewhere, liked it, saved some of the lyrics on my fone so i can google it when i get home n pinoy blogs nga yung nakuha ko.. inconsistent yung lyrics nila.. apparently basag talaga yung grammar ng lyrics ng song hahaha.. anyway, i emailed the girl at http://www.sacrosanctity.org/blog/archives/00… and she was nice enough to send me the mp3 which was forwarded to her lang rin via email and thats how i finally got a copy of the song.. i shared the mp3 with my officemate and nagustuhan rin niya and siya na rin nagsabi sa kin na si gyskard nga yung artist and also sent me the link to ur site hahah
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On 4:00 p.m., 9 Nov 2005, Ish wrote:
Haha . . this is played over and over in Galera, i love this new house hit. Hopefully doesn’t end up like ever after where everybody’s singin it.
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On 8:36 p.m., 14 Mar 2006, martin wrote:
DO you SERIOUSLY KNOW how this BLOG has been uber helpful….Like everyone else….I’ve been SEARCHING FOR THIS DAMN SONG!!!!!!!!! It drove me nuts how my really popular dj friend couldn’t even tell me the song because he HATED it…LOL! So here I am, losing my mind over this song…hearing it over and over until one day it was on MTV and I immediately phoned in my friend who I already told my dilemma to way back and was a better help than my dj friend…and she finally kinda gave the last clue to the puzzle…she gave me to song titles…flying away or pink life….and that’s what led me to this blog because apparently it’s the ONLY site that HAD SOMETHING RELEVANT about the song…LOL! I just downloaded it and it’s gonna be in my ipod playlist in a couple of seconds…THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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On 7:41 a.m., 15 May 2006, popski wrote:
Hi! just want to inquire which local record company released the Smirnoff Unleashed album? Tnx!
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On 2:52 a.m., 24 May 2006, Crissytot wrote:
Ei guys? I bet this link would help. Enjoy!
http://www.moron.nl/lyrics.php?id=69978&a…
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On 9:48 p.m., 2 Jun 2006, maine wrote:
Hi, while looking for the lyrics of Pink Life, your site came up, thanks for all the info. But what i really wanna get a hold of is the Smirnoff Unleashed Album and since i’m currently in China and it’s impossible to get info on the album, could anybody post the songs or at least where i can download the album? Thank you so much.
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On 12:41 p.m., 24 Jun 2006, Andrew wrote:
I was at the Fort last night and memorized a few lyrics of the song. So here I am looking for the mp3 which led me to your blog. I think this will end everyone’s misery:
http://jhersey33.multiply.com/music
Scroll down a bit. You can download an mp3 from there! Enjoy!
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On 4:40 p.m., 4 Jul 2006, 543 wrote:
mas ok yung time by paelya sa smirnoff unleash good that they dont play it on bars hehe late post na to prolly gyskard pink life is played out by now.
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On 10:52 p.m., 18 Jul 2006, drone1 wrote:
yup….heard it first on RT and finally after 6 mos. i have my copy …even created a ringtone of it
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On 3:25 p.m., 3 Nov 2006, jene wrote:
pips?where can i download d pink life song?i want it n my cellphone …seems like 8s taking me forever 2 find it….iv had d same dilemma just 2 get even d full lyrics and i tot d artist was gyneskard..s it gyskard pala?help.anyone?!but i do have the video n my friendster tho check it out….jereza_n@yahoo.com
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On 7:26 a.m., 14 Nov 2006, DALE wrote:
Ano songs included dun sa Smirnoff Unleashed album…
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On 12:14 p.m., 4 Dec 2006, maj wrote:
gawd.. i also had a hard time finding the lyrics of that song.. actually, i only found those lines in your web blog.. hmm.. also, the artist’s name is only found here..
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On 11:59 p.m., 21 Dec 2006, arnold II pascua wrote:
actually, the song is good..nice to hear though it sounds like Love Come Down of Sunset Daze.. i heard Pink Life each and everyday in the #1 station in Dagupan and one time in a bar in the same city.. quite mysterious but radio station who plays this one out could give info about this. and i heard this music again sa Mall and dun ko nalaman ang title sa cd stall dun..
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On 12:49 a.m., 31 Dec 2006, fluidkiss wrote:
nice to finally see some people who’ve actually heard of this song. i was trying to google its title months ago but nothing useful was showing up. not sure where i heard it first, but it was recently used as a background tune to a short tv ad on a local cable channel. i had to rush over and record the tune using my phone… just so i could bring a copy to a record store.
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On 11:53 p.m., 4 Jan 2007, Jay Torres wrote:
it’s locally released under galaxy label. look for vocal house compilation and another one 2 cd set
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On 5:56 p.m., 23 Mar 2007, christine wrote:
i love this song….i find it cute….
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On 4:49 p.m., 18 Apr 2007, xavier wrote:
cool right! i just love those kind of songs. sometimes it is played in a bar.. love it
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