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Fighting

By David Dunn

662 views Sep 14, 2026 updated For the Life of Me album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

David Dunn opens from inside exhaustion rather than describing it from a distance — "even breathing is a chore," he sings, naming a fatigue that goes deeper than a bad week. The verses stack up ordinary defeats: going to work just to get paid, wanting nothing but rest, "working yourself to death" without ever arriving anywhere.

The turn doesn't deny any of that. Instead, Dunn reframes the exhaustion as evidence of something worth continuing: "everything we done will be remembered some day, if we do or we don't keep on fighting." He calls himself "a boxer in a ring," twenty-six years in and still gasping for air, which makes the refusal to quit sound earned rather than easy.

Paul's encouragement in Galatians 6:9 not to "grow weary in doing good" because a harvest is coming fits the same logic, and Hebrews 6:10 promises that God won't forget the work done in his name. Dunn never spells out who's keeping the record — he just trusts that the fight isn't being fought for nothing.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

You can't take this anymore

Cause even breathing is a chore

Nothing you do matters anyway

You go to work and you get paid

And you're fighting, you're constantly fighting


[Verse 2]

You feel like you're being crushed

By the weight of waking up

Some people tell you to fall in love

But that ain't enough

And you're fighting, you're constantly fighting


[Chorus]

Well you must be thinking

When your clock stops ticking

That everything you've ever done just goes up in smoke

But hey hey hey, there's no way

Because everything we done will be remembered some day

If we do or we don't keep on fighting, fighting


[Verse 3]

You don't care what happens next

You just want a little rest

So many years still in front of you

You're just working to yourself to death

And you're fighting, you're constantly fighting


[Chorus]

Well you must be thinking

When your clock stops ticking

That everything you've ever done just goes up in smoke

But hey hey hey, there's no way

Because everything we done will be remembered some day

If we do or we don't keep on fighting, fighting


[Verse 4]

I'm just a boxer in a ring

And I don't know what to think

Cause I am always gasping for air

And I've been here for 26 years

And I'm fighting, I'm constantly fighting


[Chorus]

Well you must be thinking

When your clock stops ticking

That everything you've ever done just goes up in smoke

But hey hey hey, there's no way

Because everything we done will be remembered some day

If we do or we don't keep on


[Chorus]

Well you must be thinking

When your clock stops ticking

That everything you've ever done just goes up in smoke

But hey hey hey, there's no way

Because everything we done will be remembered some day

If we do or we don't keep on fighting

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