Live Like You Were Dying (song)
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| "Live Like You Were Dying" | ||
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| Single by Tim McGraw | ||
| from the album 'Live Like You Were Dying' | ||
| Released | June 5, 2004 | |
| Format | CD single | |
| Recorded | 2004 | |
| Genre | Country music | |
| Length | 4:58 | |
| Label | Curb Records | |
| Writer(s) | Tim Nichols, Craig Wiseman | |
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| Tim McGraw singles chronology | ||
| "Watch the Wind Blow By" (2004) |
"Live Like You Were Dying" (2004) |
"Back When" (2004) |
"Live Like You Were Dying" is a song by American country music artist Tim McGraw which appears on his Live Like You Were Dying album. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Country charts, and stayed there for seven non-consecutive weeks. (The song also spent ten consecutive weeks at #1 on Radio & Records' country charts). It was also ranked as the number-one country song of 2004, according to both Billboard and Radio & Records.
[edit] The Song
- Keys - G Major, A Major
- Length - 4:58
"Live Like You Were Dying" tells the story of a man in his early forties, with an unspecified, life-threatening disease. Upon realizing that he does not have much time left to live, the man decides to engage in certain activities that he has always wanted to do, such as skydiving, mountain climbing, fishing, and bull riding. He also decides to improve his standing with other people, including his wife. Also, the man starts to read the Bible, and forgives everyone against whom he previously held grudges.
This song is associated with McGraw's father, Tug McGraw, who was hospitalized with a brain tumor on March 12, 2003. It was revealed that he had cancer. He was given three weeks to live by the doctors, but survived nine months. He died on January 4, 2004.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
| Tim McGraw |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Tim McGraw (1993) • Not a Moment Too Soon (1994) • All I Want (1995) • Everywhere (1997) • A Place In The Sun (1999) • Greatest Hits (2000) • Set This Circus Down (2001) • Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (2002) • Live Like You Were Dying (2004) • Tim McGraw Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (2006) • Let It Go (2007) |
| Number-one singles: "Don't Take the Girl" (1994) • "Not a Moment Too Soon" (1995) • "I Like It, I Love It" (1995) • "She Never Lets It Go To Her Heart" (1996) • "It's Your Love" (1997) • "Everywhere" (1997) • "Just To See You Smile" (1997) • "Where the Green Grass Grows" (1998) • "Please Remember Me" (1999) • "Something Like That" (1999) • "My Best Friend" (1999) • "My Next Thirty Years" (2000) • "Grown Men Don't Cry" (2001) • "Angry All the Time" (2001) • "Bring On the Rain" (w/ Jo Dee Messina) (2001) • "The Cowboy In Me" (2001) • "Unbroken" (2002) • "Real Good Man" (2003) • "Watch the Wind Blow By" (2004) • "Live Like You Were Dying" (2004) • "Back When" (2004) • "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" (2007) |
| Related articles |
| Faith Hill • Tug McGraw • Delhi, Louisiana • Curb Records • Byron Gallimore • Flicka • Tim McGraw (song) |
