Most love songs are beautiful lies. They promise forever. They promise perfection. They promise a love that never wavers, never falters, never gets boring on a Tuesday night when you are both tired and have nothing to say.
“I Will Love You Forever” is not one of those songs.
“I know what the title sounds like,” Tom Bruggemann says with a laugh. “It sounds like every other love song ever written. But this one is different. Because I actually mean it. And I know what forever costs.”
The song is not naive about love. It is not the breathless declaration of someone in the first week of a relationship. It is the steady, clear-eyed promise of someone who has been through enough to know that forever is not a feeling. It is a decision. One you make again and again, even on the days when it is hard.
Have you ever loved someone so deeply that the words “I love you” felt too small? Have you ever wanted to say something bigger but could not find the language for it?
Tom found the language. It is four words long. And he means every one of them.
This is the love song for people who have been through enough to know what love actually costs, and who choose to pay it anyway.