"Live Like You Were Dying" is a song written by
Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman and performed by American country
music artist Tim McGraw. The song appears on his Live Like You Were
Dying album. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard country music
charts, and held that position for a total of seven weeks. In
addition, it was named as the Number One country song of 2004 by
Billboard. The music video, directed by Sherman Halsey was
nominated for Video of the Year at the 2006 Academy of Country
Music Awards.
"Live Like You Were Dying" tells the story of a man in his early
forties who gets the news that his father has an unspecified, life
threatening illness. His father's message is to live life to the
fullest and do things that he had always wanted to do, such as
skydiving, mountain climbing, fishing, and bull riding. He also
says that he became a better husband and friend. McGraw then
switches perspective to himself, talking about how going fishing
with his dad stopped being an imposition and how he finally, after
reading the Bible, took a long hard look back over his life and
took his father's advice by going skydiving, mountain climbing, and
bull riding. 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
5, 2004.
Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967)
is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums
and singles have topped the country music charts with total album
sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the
eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country
singer, in the Soundscan era. He is married to country singer Faith
Hill and is the son of former baseball player Tug McGraw. McGraw
had 11 consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard
albums charts. Twenty-one singles hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot
Country Songs chart. He has won 3 Grammys, 14 Academy of Country
Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10
American Music Awards, and 3 People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul
II Tour with Faith Hill is the highest grossing tour in country
music history, and one of the top five among all genres of
music.
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