"Living for the Night" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer George Strait.

It is the first single release in Strait's solo career that he has had a hand in co-writing,[2] and only the second song of his entire solo career that he has had a hand in writing that was used on one of his albums (the first being the self-penned "I Can't See Texas from Here", a cut from his 1982 album Strait from the Heart).

In the song, the male narrator expresses his feelings after having lost an unspecified person in his life ("Every day is a lifetime without you / Hard to get through since you've gone").

Bjorke also said that the idea behind the song may have been inspired by the loss of Strait's daughter, Jenifer, in an automobile accident several years previous.

[3] Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in his Allmusic review of the album, called it a "terrific tear-in-my-beer single.