Learning to Live Again

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"Learning to Live Again"
Single by Garth Brooks
from the album The Chase
B-side"Walkin' After Midnight"[1]
ReleasedJanuary 25, 1993
GenreCountry
Length4:06 (album version)
LabelLiberty 57894
Songwriter(s)Don Schlitz, Stephanie Davis
Producer(s)Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks singles chronology
"Somewhere Other Than the Night"
(1992)
"Learning to Live Again"
(1993)
"That Summer"
(1993)

"Learning to Live Again" is a song written by

Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, and reached number 5 on Canada's RPM country chart. This song is included on The Ultimate Hits
collection.

Content

The song is a ballad, in which the narrator, a widower, describes his feelings of loneliness and isolation while expressing doubt about his capability to 'live again', date again and move past his mourning for his late wife. His friends then set him up on a double date at a little cafe. He feels very out of place but is getting along with his date. She asks him to dance but he's forgotten her name. The chorus describes how learning to live again as a single man is killing him. When they are saying goodnight on her porch, he kisses her on the cheek and gets the courage to ask if he can see her again. It is revealed that she is learning to live again also, but he doesn't know it. She says, "We'll See".

Chart positions

"Learning to Live Again" debuted at number 48 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 6, 1993.

Chart (1993) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 5
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1993) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 79
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 46

References