"Life Goes On" is a song by American glam metal

Glam metal

Glam metal is a subgenre of hard rock and heavy metal that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...

 band Poison

Poison (band)

Poison is an American glam metal band that achieved great success in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. To date, Poison has sold over 30 million records worldwide and have sold 15 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted ten singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100,...

. It was the fourth single from their 1990

1990 in music

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 album Flesh & Blood.
The song reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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Albums

"Life Goes On" is on the following albums.

• Flesh & Blood
• Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996
  Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996
  Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986–1996 is the first greatest hits compilation CD from the Glam Metal band Poison. The album was released on November 26, 1996 by Capitol Records...
  
  
• Best of Ballads & Blues
  Best of Ballads & Blues (album)
  Best of Ballads & Blues is a greatest hits compilation album from the American Hard rock band Poison, relaesed August 5, 2003. Unlike Poison's Greatest Hits: 1986-1996, this compilation focuses on the band's power ballads and blues-oriented songs and also includes two new acoustic recordings of...
  
  
• The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
  The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock
  The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock is a compilation album from the American rock band Poison, released to celebrate the band's 20 year anniversary. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date in the U.S as of September 2009....
  
  
• Flesh & Blood - 20th Anniversary Edition

Song History

CC originally brought the song to Poison, where Rikki and Bobby added their magic to it. The lyrics were written after a girlfriend of CC's was shot and killed in a bar fight in Palm Springs. The song is about trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	35