"Seven Days" is a song by English singer-songwriter Sting, released on 12 April 1993 by A&M Records as the second single from his fourth studio album, Ten Summoner's Tales (1993).
When writing "Seven Days", Sting sought to build a song around a reggae-inspired beat in quintuple meter with chord changes akin to music from a Broadway show.
"[3] With the exception of the UK CD Digipak edition, all versions of the "Seven Days" single featured "January Stars" as a B-side.
The song recycles the instrumentation of another track from Ten Summoner's Tales titled "Everybody Laughed But You", but includes different lyrics.
A live cover of "Ain't No Sunshine", originally recorded by Bill Withers, was taken from an April 1991 acoustic show at the Buddle Arts Centre in Wallsend and included on the UK CD Digipak single.
Rolling Stone depicted the song's premise as a David and Goliath story and noted the lyrical callback to "Every Little Things She Does is Magic" during the fade-out, which the Baltimore Sun identified as "another number about a man too love-smitten to act on his desire".