"Always" is a song by American rock band Saliva. It was released in 2002 as the first single from their third studio album Back into Your System (2002). The song reached number one on the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart for one week in February 2003, making this Saliva's only number-one hit in their career. "Always" also peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest-charted single on that chart. It reached the top 50 in countries like Ireland and the UK. The accompanying music video for the song, directed by Charles Infante, features a man roaming around the city being haunted by the spirit of a woman from his past.
Brian O'Neill of AllMusic gave the song "Always" a "Track Pick" tag, describing it as "histrionic" and encapsulating the melodrama from Kiss' Animalize.[2]
Chart performance
"Always" reached number one on the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart for the week of February 1, 2003.[3] This remains Saliva's only number-one hit in their career. For the week of December 14, 2002, the song debuted at number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] It reached a peak position of number 51 the week of February 15, 2003.[5] To date, it is the band's highest-charted single on that chart. The song also charted in the UK and Ireland, debuting at numbers 47 and 48 for the weeks of March 6 and 9, 2003, respectively, before leaving the next week.[6] In Australia, it charted at number 62 the week of March 10, 2003.[7]
Music video
Directed by Charles Infante,[8] the video focuses on a young man, played by Steven Kozlowski, who appears to be haunted by a woman of his past, sporadically appearing throughout the empty city. The video ends with the man, frustrated, destroying a telephone booth before sitting on the ground, crying. MTV requested an edit of the lyrics in the final verse. The line "the pistol shaking in my hand, and all I can hear is the sound" was edited to replace the word "pistol" with "anger" in the video version.[9]
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