"Tonight I Climbed the Wall" is a song written and recorded by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson (born October 17, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for blending traditional honky-tonk and mainstream country pop sounds (for a style widely regarded as "neotraditional country"), as well as penning many ...
. It was released in January 1993 as the second single from his album ''
A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love)
''A Lot about Livin' (and a Little 'bout Love)'' is the third studio album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on October 6, 1992, and produced the singles, "Chattahoochee", "She's Got the Rhythm (and I Got the Blues) ...
''. It peaked at number 4 on both the United States ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart.
This broke a string of ten consecutive singles by Jackson that had peaked in the top 3 of Billboard's Hot Country chart.
Content
The song discusses a couple that had been fighting. They had built a wall between them with all of the arguing and now the man in the song climbed that wall. He put all the disagreements behind them and went to his wife. After he made the climb and admitted his faults, he realized the things they were fighting over were small and unimportant.
Music video
The music video was directed by Jim Shea, is entirely in black and white, and premiered in early 1993. It switches between scenes of Alan performing live and a woman walking around on a farm. This is one of only twice when Jackson appears without his trademark mustache, the second time being in the music video for "
So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore" in 2012.
Chart positions
"Tonight I Climbed the Wall" debuted at number 73 on the
Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of February 6, 1993.
Year-end charts
References
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1993 singles
1992 songs
Alan Jackson songs
Songs written by Alan Jackson
Song recordings produced by Scott Hendricks
Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall
Arista Nashville singles
Black-and-white music videos