"Every Day" is a song written by Jeffrey Steele and Alissa Moreno and recorded by American

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group

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. It was released in March 2008 as the third single from their album '' Still Feels Good''. It became their nineteenth consecutive Top 10 hit, reaching #2 on the '' Billboard''

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charts. The song earned a Grammy nomination for

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Content

The song is a mid-tempo ballad set in

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and primarily accompanied by

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, in which the narrator addresses someone else, telling of how that person keeps the narrator from making mistakes in life ("every day, you save my life"). Jeffrey Steele, one of the song's co-writers, was inspired to write down the title after meeting singer Sarah Buxton at a restaurant in

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. Buxton told Steele about her roommate, saying "Every day, she saves my life". Steele then went home thinking about a lyric. Later on, while at a songwriting seminar in

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, Steele met songwriter Alissa Moreno, who was playing a melody on the piano. Steele then sang the title that he had written alongside Moreno's melody, they worked on the lyric and melody, and the song was completed. He then sent the song to record producer Dann Huff, who recommended the song to Rascal Flatts. The group then recorded it for their ''Still Feels Good'' album, giving Moreno her second outside cut as a songwriter.

Music video

A music video for the song was issued on April 17, 2008. It features actors portraying various dramatic scenes based on "the concept that a single act of kindness… making a difference in the lives of others", according to CMT. The video was created by Deaton Flanigen Productions. The video won the award for Group Video of the Year at the 2009 CMT Music Awards, the band's seventh consecutive and final win in that category.

Chart performance

The song debuted at number 42 on the

chart dated March 8, 2008, and reaching a peak of number 2 on the chart week of June 14, 2008, behind Brad Paisley's " I'm Still a Guy".

Year-end charts

References

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