Always (Saliva song)

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]

"Always" reached number one on the Billboard Modern 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]

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]

"Always" was the theme song for WWE's Survivor Series Pay-per-view in November 2002.^[10] It was featured in the 2010 music video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock as a downloadable content song.

• "Always (Radio edit)" bears no difference to the album version, but "Always (Video)" is censored; the word "pistol" is replaced with the word "anger".