Live Like You Were Dying

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Live Like You Were Dying

Studio album by Tim McGraw

Released

Byron Gallimore
Tim McGraw
Darran Smith

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link

Tim McGraw chronology

Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
(2002)

Live Like You Were Dying
(2004)

Tim McGraw Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
(2006)

Live Like You Were Dying is the 9th studio album by country music superstar Tim McGraw. McGraw's 9th CD, Live Like You Were Dying debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 766,000 copies in its first week. The album has gone on to sell 3,751,602 copies and has been certified 4X Platinum by the RIAA. The album was nominated for 2 Grammys in 2005 for Best Country Vocal Performance - Male and Best Country Album.

The album included number one hits "Live Like You Were Dying", "Back When", "Drugs or Jesus", "Do You Want Fries With That", and "My Old Friend". One of the most noted songs is "Live Like You Were Dying" itself, the story of a man with a deadly disease who finds he has little time to live (the music video for the song prominently featured McGraw's father, former baseball player Tug McGraw, who had recently died of brain cancer) "Live Like You Were Dying" was the #1 country music song of 2004.

The first track on the album, "How Bad Do You Want It", was featured as the theme song to CMT's Trick My Truck.

[edit] Track listing

"How Bad Do You Want It" (Jim Collins, Bill Luther) - 3:44
"My Old Friend" (Craig Wiseman, Steve McEwan) - 3:37
"Can't Tell Me Nothin'" (Steve Bogard, Rick Giles) - 3:08
"Old Town New" (Bruce Robison, Darrell Scott) - 5:00
"Live Like You Were Dying" (Wiseman, Tim Nichols) - 4:58
"Drugs or Jesus" (Brett James, Chris Lindsey, Aimee Mayo, Troy Verges) - 4:39
"Back When" (Jeff Stevens, Stan Lynch, Stephony Smith) - 4:59
"Something's Broken" (Casey Beathard, Kevin Horne) - 3:42
"Open Season on My Heart" (Rodney Crowell, James T. Slater) - 3:39
"Everybody Hates Me" (Beathard, Ed Hill) - 3:28
"Walk Like a Man" (Tommy Douglas) - 3:35
"Blank Sheet of Paper" (Don Schlitz, Brad Warren) - 4:07
"Just Be Your Tear" (Wiseman, Tony Mullins) - 4:47
"Do You Want Fries With That" (Beathard, Kerry Kurt Phillips) - 3:59
"Kill Myself" (Bob DiPiero, Anthony Smith, Bobby Terry) - 3:07
"We Carry On" (James T. Slater, Douglas) - 4:12

[edit] Singles

Live Like You Were Dying was the first single from the album. The song peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country chart and number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song won a Grammy Award for best Best Country Vocal Performance - Male.

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2004	Billboard 200	1

Preceded by Now 16 by Various artists	Billboard 200 number-one album September 11 - September 24, 2004	Succeeded by What I Do by Alan Jackson

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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) · Greatest Hits: Limited Edition (2008)

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" (w/ Faith Hill) (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)

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