I love this song. My mom loves this song. I don't know anyone who's heard it and doesn't like it. It's a beautiful song about two people in love... 4evermore.
"4evermore. Forever's a mighty long time, but I really wanna spend it with you. I shine when you shine, and there's really no substitute." The chorus is a simple confession that, while forever is a very long time, the pair in the song have no desire to spend it with anyone but the one they love. That speaks to a deep love and commitment, because they are willing to stick with someone for an immeasurable amount of time, considering forever never ends. This is because they feel that when their lover shines, they do too, and there's nothing like being so connected to someone that the things that touch them touch you too.
"Take a picture, I want you to remember when I professed my love. Press the button, I hope it's still recording every word I'm saying to you. I'm telling you right now from this day on I've already weighed up the pros and cons - telling you you're just the woman I want, I want, I want. Making my plans just to be with you. Just you and me babe, till the days are through. And I ain't ashamed love, to say I do, I do." This man has decided to profess his love for his girl, and he wants her to cherish the moment for life. He even wants to record it so that the words can be captured for all time. He's thought about it, weighed the options, spent time with it, and he realizes that she is the one for him. He is making plans for a forever-type of love investment, and he even implies that there will be an "I do" moment so that others can share in and witness their love. He wants the world to know that she is his.
"Pick a tree to carve our names - let the world know it's not a game. Last longer than a wedding ring, generations tattooed with the love we bring. From the seeds we sow to the time it takes to grow - long enough to show you I won't let go of you. Cuz without you I'm incomplete like this love song without this beat. I'm saying that you are the man I need, I need, I need." Taking it back to younger days of carving a tree with initials or scribbling names in a heart on your notebook in class, she too wants the world to know of the love that they have. While a wedding ring can show a sign of commitment, she says that what they have goes even beyond that. She says that generations will be impacted because of what they have. The seeds of love that they plant now will bring life and love for time to come, growing positive fruit for others, possibly to include the children that may come from their union. She has no desire to let him go, feeling that he brings a sense of completion to her life, like the beat makes the song she's singing complete. For her, he is the man she needs, and she is sticking with him. While I'm not much on the idea of someone completing someone else (I feel like we should be complete in and of ourselves and let someone else complement us), I do understand the feeling that without the one you love in your life, something would be missing.
"Take a picture off the wall, try to reframe it. Take all the color off, try to repaint it. If you want picture perfect, well we ain't it, because we painted our own portrait of me and you that could never be tainted, because real love embodies are colors of the spectrum. Mix a few greens with your reds and your blues, create some new views, then you rehang it. Start over, even though your friends gon' doubt you, and all them other niggas trying to scout you. It gets so tiring but I'd be lying if I said that I'd be better off without you. And when I think of walking out, you smile in a way that make me feel like I'd be lost without you. Me and you are the only threats to us, till death do us I'm standing next to you." Relationships are beautiful pictures that are painted by two people, and they can mix the moods and affections and make it how they want. It may not look like the "standard," but that's the beauty of art - it is for those who create it and those who can appreciate it. So while friends may question, other people may try to enter the picture, or times may get tough, he doesn't feel like he'd be better off without the love in his life. Even when he tries to leave, there is something in her smile that pulls him back. No one can get in the way of their love unless they allow it, so they will be together forever.
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