Always (Saliva song)

Single infobox
Name = Always


Artist = Saliva
from Album = Back Into Your System
Released = 2003
Format = CD
Genre = Alternative metal
Hard rock
Post-grunge
Length = 3:51
Label = Island Records
Writer =
Last single = After Me (2002)
This single = Always (2003)
Next single = Rest in Pieces (2003)

"Always" is the first single off the album "Back Into Your System" by alternative metal band Saliva. It made it to #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for one week and has been Saliva's most successful hit. It was used for World Wrestling Entertainment's 2002 Survivor Series and was also performed at the event.cite web|date=2002-10-17|url= http://corporate.wwe.com/news/2002/2002_10_17.1.jsp|title=WWET and Saliva Launch Promotion With The World Premiere of "ALWAYS" Video This Sunday on WWE Sunday Night Heat|publisher=WWE Corporate|accessdate=2008-02-03|quote="Always" will be the official theme song of WWE’s Pay-Per-View spectacular Survivor Series on November 17 at Madison Square Garden in New York. As part of the event, Saliva will be performing "Always" live via simulcast from The World, WWE’s Entertainment Complex in Times Square.]

The song's chorus utilizes a power chord structure recognizable in various other singles of the alternative metal genre, including The Exies' "Ugly" released only a few years later.

The music video for "Always" focuses on a young man who appears to be haunted by a woman of his past, sporadically appearing throughout town. The video ends with the man, enraged with emotion, destroying a telephone booth before collapsing to the ground. 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" video version. Also, this song was played on Music Choice Television. The genre it was played was "Rock".

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