Life Is a Flower

"Life Is a Flower"
Single by Ace of Base
from the album Flowers
B-side"No Good Lover"
Released6 April 1998 (1998-04-06)
Length3:47
LabelMega
SongwriterJonas "Joker" Berggren
Producers
  • Jonas "Joker" Berggren
  • Per Adebratt
  • Tommy Ekman
Ace of Base singles chronology
"Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry"
(1996)
"Life Is a Flower"
(1998)
"Cruel Summer"
(1998)
Music video
"Life Is a Flower" on YouTube

"Life Is a Flower" is a song by the Swedish group Ace of Base, released in Europe on 6 April 1998 by Mega Records as the first single from the group's third album, Flowers (1998). The song peaked at number one in Hungary and was a top-10 hit in Denmark, Finland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In the United States, it was released with different lyrics, titled "Whenever You're Near Me", and in a different key. Jonas Berggren, writer of the song, described it as is his greatest Ace of Base song in a 2015 interview.