High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" is a song written by Colin Hay and Thom Mooney which was originally released on Hay's 1994 album Topanga and was re-released on 2000's Going Somewhere."Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" has been featured in six television episodes: the Scrubs episode "My Philosophy" (sung by the cast), at the end of Dawson's Creek episode "Separation Anxiety", the The Hills episode "Everybody Falls", the What About Brian episode "Two In Twenty-Four", the Cane episode "Family Business", the pilot episode of The Cleaner and the "Leap of Faith" episode of Brothers & Sisters.The intro is also used for many emotional scenes in Scrubs.