Still Fighting It
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"Still Fighting It" is a song by Ben Folds
Ben Folds
Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and television personality. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world...

 released in 2002 as the second single from his 2001 album Rockin' the Suburbs
Rockin' the Suburbs
Rockin’ the Suburbs is an alternative rock album by singer/songwriter Ben Folds, released on September 11, 2001 . His first solo album after leaving his band Ben Folds Five , Rockin’ the Suburbs is also Folds' most popular LP to date, and includes the...

. The song is a bittersweet ode to the pain of adolescence dedicated to his son Louis. He would later write an accompanying song for his daughter Gracie on the 2005 album Songs for Silverman
Songs for Silverman
Songs for Silverman is an album by Ben Folds, first released on April 26, 2005, by Epic Records in the United States. The album reached #13 on the Billboard 200, making it Folds' highest-charting album until the release of Way to Normal in September 2008.The album is named after Ben Goldman, Folds'...

, and often performs the two songs together live. The B-sides on the single release of "Still Fighting It" are live versions of "Zak & Sara" from Rockin' the Suburbs and "Boxing" from Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five is an alternative rock trio formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The group comprises Ben Folds , Robert Sledge , and Darren Jessee . The group achieved mainstream success in the alternative, indie and pop music scenes...

's self titled debut album Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five (album)
Ben Folds Five is the self-titled debut album by Ben Folds Five, released in 1995. A non-traditional rock album by any estimation, it was an indie pop album that excluded lead guitars completely...

.

Angela Aki
Angela Aki
, born Kiyomi Angela Aki on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan.-Early life:...

 covered the song for the B-Side of her single "Tegami: Haikei Jūgo no Kimi e
Tegami: Haikei Jugo no Kimi e
-Charts :- Cover Versions :This song has also been sung by Taiwanese singer René Liu under the title Strive On: To My Fifteen Year Old Self , Chinese singer Chen Ming under the title Letter , and Hongkonger singer Sherman Chung under the title Letter to Myself .-External links:*...

", which was released in 2008.

Single track listing

  1. "Still Fighting It"
  2. "Zak & Sara" (Live)
  3. "Boxing" (Live)
  4. "Still Fighting It" (Video)

Popular culture

The track "Still Fighting It" was featured in the Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

 episode "My New Suit". The song was also used in a government information film in the UK about cyberbullying called, 'Let's Fight It Together'. http://www.digizen.org/cyberbullying/fullfilm.aspx
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