About The Song
“Everywhere” is a song written by Mike Reid and Craig Wiseman, and recorded by American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released in July 1997 as the second single from his album of the same name. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 2 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. Despite reaching Number One on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (Now Hot Country Songs), the song did not appear on McGraw’s Greatest Hits album. It did, however, later appear on his second Greatest Hits package, Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2.
The narrator describes a former significant other and her decision to end their relationship after a disagreement over their future together as a couple — he foresees plans on leaving the small community in which they were both born and raised, and live a life of travel in hopes that she would accompany him in such life, but she steadfastly insists in staying in said community. Almost from the instant that the narrator begins his traveling life, he claims that he sees his significant other, albeit in spirit, appearing in every destination in North America that he visits. Furthermore, whenever he does return to their hometown, he is regularly informed by its residents of her new life — she has married another man and they have subsequently started a family together. And although the narrator reaches the conclusion that his significant other is no longer in his life, he nevertheless proclaims that he will eternally carry her spirit with him in his travels with great emotion just as he always has.
Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, saying that its “understated delivery packs the song with such emotional heft that the unresolved sadness lingers after the song has ended.” He goes on to call it the moment where McGraw discovers “subtlety and finds it suits him quite well.”
The music video was directed and produced by Sherman Halsey, and premiered on CMT on July 11, 1997, during The CMT Delivery Room.
“Everywhere” debuted at number 72 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 5, 1997.
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Lyrics
We were born in this little town
Growin’ up I was countin’ down
Every single day
‘Til we made our get away
But you said you could never see yourself
Tryin’ to make a life anywhere else
This would be your home
And I was on my own
But ever since you said good bye
I’ve been out here on the wind
And baby you would be surprised
All the places you have been
I’ve seen you in
Albuquerque
Waitin’ out a blizzard
Arizona
Dancin’ ‘cross the desert
Watchin’ the sun set in Monterey
Girl I swear just the other day you were
Down in Georgia
Pickin’ them peaches
In Carolina
Barefoot on the beaches
No matter where you choose to be
In my heart I’ll always see you
Everywhere
Now days
When I’m passin’ through
The conversation always turns to you
And I hear you’re doin’ fine
Livin’ out by the county line
Got a man that’s home every night
A couple of kids and the kind of life
That you want to lead
Guess you could say the same for me
But you and I
Made our choices
All those years ago
Still I know
I’ll hear your voice
And see you down the road
Maybe in
Oklahoma
Drivin’ ‘cross the prairie
In Dallas, Texas
Isn’t that where we
Always said we would
Like to try
Never did
So maybe that’s why you’re on
Every highway
Just beyond the high-beams
Right beside me
In all of my sweet dreams
No matter where you choose to be
In my heart I’ll always see you
In
Albuquerque
Waitin’ out a blizzard
Arizona
Dancin’ ‘cross the desert
Watchin’ the sun set in Monterey
Girl I swear just the other day you were
Down in Georgia
Pickin’ them peaches
In Carolina
Barefoot on the beaches
No matter where you choose to be
In my heart I’ll always see you