21 Songs About Loving Someone Forever
The concept of loving someone forever is a profound and deeply emotional idea. However, it’s important to recognize that the nature of love can vary, and different people may interpret and experience it in unique ways. It’s essential to approach the idea of loving someone forever with a realistic and compassionate perspective. While relationships can endure and deepen over time, they also require effort, commitment, and a willingness to adapt to the evolving nature of love and life. Below is a list of songs about loving someone forever:
1. Lady Gaga – I’ll Never Love Again
This is the final song in A Star Is Born movie. The character Ally sings about her late husband Jackson who had recently committed suicide in their garage while she was performing at her final concert on her tour. It was later revealed that the song was intended to be a duet with Ally but due to the embarrassment at the Grammy’s earlier in the movie he didn’t want to do so.
Lady spoke to Entertainment Weekly and revealed what inspired her to write the track:
My very, very, very dear friend Sonja died of cancer that day. We were supposed to shoot in, like, 30 minutes, and I left the set because her husband called me and I could hear her in the background and I just got in the car and drove. I missed her by 15 minutes and she died. I literally laid with her, with her husband, and their dog, and his son…. When I came back, Bradley was so gentle with me and we got through it. I performed the song. He was like, ‘You don’t have to do it again. It’s okay.’ All I wanted to do was sing. I’ll never forget that day. It was really a special scene, and I’ll always remember that moment.
2. Zara Larsson, MNEK – Never Forget You
The track is from her debut album So Good. Zara revealed that the person she wrote about had such a huge impact on her life. All her teenage years are about him so no matter what she does, when she looks back from 13 to the present time, it is about him. She still feels very connected to him.
3. Ellie Goulding – How Long Will I Love You
The song was released as the official 2013 Children in Need single and is part of the album Halcyon Days. Lyrically, Ellie uses natural imagery to create an image of forever as she describes how long she will love her significant other.
4. Justin Timberlake – Mirrors
This was a love song to his then-new wife Jessica Biel. The two had initially taken a break briefly but they reconciled after a few months and ended up getting married shortly. Justin stated that this is a love song to someone that you feel is your other half and someone who mirrors you as you go through life changes.
The song and the music video are also dedicated to Justin’s grandparents (William and Sadie Bomar) who have been married for 63 years until William died in 2012. It inspired Justin to write the song in 2009.
5. Christina Perri – A Thousand Years
The song was written as a soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Generally, it is about eternal love. In the chorus, Christina elaborates on her love for her significant other. She uses 1000 years despite the fact that humans cannot live to that age hence proof that she means her love will last forever.
In a 2012 interview, Christina described how she got the inspiration to do the song:
The producers came to me in 2011 and said, ‘can you write a song for Breaking Dawn – Part 1?’ So I went and saw the film six months before it came out, and wrote ‘A Thousand Years’ for Edward and Bella. I’m not a vampire, even though I wish I was, but I tried to step into their love story.
6. Shania Twain – Forever & Always
The song is mainly about eternal love. Shania got inspired by the idea of couples that fall in love in their youth and are still in love as they grow older together. The music video for the song tries to bring out this concept.
7. Dan + Shay feat Justin Bieber – 10,000 Hours
According to Malcolm Gladwell, 10,000 hours is the time it takes to master a skill. In this case, they refer to falling in love. The song was released just days after Justin and Hailey Bieber’s nuptials in South Carolina and it serves as a proclamation of love to Hailey.
Justin sings about how he is willing to be dedicated throughout their marriage and learn more about his significant other. Even if he doesn’t get there in 10,000 hours he is willing to spend the rest of his life.
8. Taylor Swift – Mary’s Song
The track was inspired by Taylor’s next-door neighbors who were an old couple that had known each other since they were kids. They shared their story with Taylor and she was touched by it.
In an interview with Fanpop, Taylor Swift had this to say, “I wrote this song about a couple who lived next door to us. They’d been married forever and they came over one night for dinner and were just so cute. They were talking about how they fell in love and got married, and how they met when they were just little kids. It was really comforting to know that all I had to do was go home and look next door to see a perfect example of forever.”
9. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
This is one of Ed Sheeran’s biggest hit songs and was the first song to spend a full year in the UK Top 40 and the first song to reach 500 million streams on Spotify. The song was about his then-girlfriend Athina Andrelos who at the time worked for English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. They broke up in 2015 after dating for about a year.
Lyrically, the song is about lifelong love. Ed imagines the love lasting till they are both old and wrinkled.
10. Justin Bieber feat Post Malone – Forever
‘Forever’ features on Justin’s 2020 album Changes and is the second collaboration with Post Malone. Lyrically, Justin asks his significant other to be with him forever. He shares how she has been there for him when he felt like he had nothing in him. He now just wants to settle down with her and build a life together.
11. Ciara – Beauty Marks
The song is from the 2019 album Beauty Marks. Ciara appreciates her husband and thanks him for taking her as she is with all the after-effects of the heartbreaks she has had from previous relationships. He shows her how her scars are now beauty marks.
12. Ed Sheeran – One Life
In the song, Ed Sheeran sings about what he was feeling the moment before he proposed to his girlfriend. He was very sure he wanted to spend forever with her. He then goes ahead to describe how he felt after she said yes.
13. Ed Sheeran – Perfect
Ed Sheeran was inspired by and dedicated the track to his current wife Cherry Seaborn. It is part of the album Divide. It reached number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. Ed made the decision to take a year off and spend nearly every day with Cherry so as to create a strong bond.
We also see Ed confirming his commitment to Cherry and hinting that he is ready for marriage and to start a family together.
14. Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
The song was recorded for her 1992 film The Bodyguard but was originally written by Dolly Parton in 1974. Whitney’s cover ended up becoming one of the best singles of all time and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for fourteen consecutive weeks.
Lyrically, Whitney sings about leaving a man she is still deeply in love with so as not to be a hindrance in his life. She states that she will always love him all through her life.
15. Mariah Carey – Always Be My Baby
This is the third single from Mariah’s fifth studio album Daydream and was her 11th chart-topper. It was certified 5x multi-platinum by the RIAA. Lyrically, Mariah sings about how she will always love her ex even after he leaves the relationship that they had. She says she will not stand in his way or try to stop him but is confident that he will be back again.
16. Luther Vandross feat Mariah Carey – Endless Love
This is a duet cover for the song that was originally sung by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie for the 1981 film of the same name. It peaked at #2 on the charts and stayed in the top 40 for 13 weeks.
17. Katy Perry – Never Worn White
This is a wedding-themed ballad where Katy sings about wanting to have a long-lasting relationship with a lover. She references the tradition of the bride wearing a white gown during a wedding ceremony in the chorus.
The song was dedicated to Orlando Bloom who she was engaged to at the time. The two had had an on-and-off relationship over the years and finally decided to get married when Bloom proposed in 2019.
18. Taylor Swift – Lover
The romantic track was dedicated to her then-partner of three years, Joe Alwyn. It has a wedding-like perspective on their relationship and shares different aspects of their romance. Speaking to iHeartRadio during the album release party, Taylor stated this about the song:
I’m really, really proud of this song, because it’s always been very hard for me to write love songs that weren’t about love, and like, pining, love and secrecy, love and fear. If I wasn’t writing ‘Love Story,’ which wasn’t even about my own life; like really, it was about movies I had seen, and Romeo and Juliet, and sort of a fragment of it was my own life. But, I haven’t really been able to write a pure ‘Oh my god I love you’ love song, and this is the one that I’m the most proud of. So this song is like that. And basically, I wanted it to sort of exist in a timeless era, where you wouldn’t be able to guess if it was being played at a wedding reception in 1980 or 1970 or now. So, there were no instruments that we used that were new instruments since things that were invented post 70s. And so, I kind of wrote the bridge as if they were vows. You know how when people write their vows and they sort of, like, customize them; I kind of wanted to do that in the bridge of this song.
19. Justin Bieber – Anyone
Justin sings to his wife Hailey Baldwin Bieber telling her that he is and will always be there for her regardless of anything. He tells her that she is the only one he will ever love even if they separate in the future and she moves on.
The track is part of the album Justice released in 2021. In the video, Justin imitates the famous boxer Rocky from the 1976 film.
20. Kenny Rogers – Through The Years
The song was the fourth and final single from Kenny Rogers’ eleventh studio album Share Your Love. It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and remained in the Top 40 for eleven weeks.
Lyrically, the song is about someone who has been with Kenny Rogers for so many years that he can’t remember a time when they weren’t around. She has been with him through the ups and downs of life and stayed strong through the whole period.
21. Dan + Shay – From The Ground Up
In an interview with Genius, Dan Smyres had this to say about the song: “It’s a classic love story, the tale told by our grandparents. Both Shay’s and my grandparents were each married for over 65 years. With all the divorces and stuff that goes on in media these days, that’s the example that we want to strive for in our relationships. That kind of love. You don’t see it much these days. It’s that classic love tale, enduring the good and the bad times. It makes love last forever. From the ground up.”
The song is part of the album Obsessed which was released in 2016.