This is a song I wrote in 1999 and I just listened to my muse, that little creative spark which was spinning around in my head from 1997 thru 2001. During that period Greg Brayton and I recorded over sixty songs. I just captured them when they popped into my head. Oh, I did sweat over some of them but I had to have something pop into my head to begin with.
At the time I wrote this song I don’t believe we’d used the waltz rhythm for any other song. It doesn’t show up much in music. Who is on the dance floor today waltzing?
I recall that Greg sailed right through this song and we had a keeper on the first attempt.
But how could anyone ever use a song like this? I remember laughing and saying to Greg that probably nowhere, no how would anyone, anywhere, ever hear this song.
And yet on Tuesday, Election Day morning I used it as the closing number for a senior group and they loved it. In the last chorus I had the whole group singing it to one another and when the song finished I said, “Now, if we could just get all of the voters in this nation to sing that song to one another as they come out of the voting booths then America would be a much better Nation.
The I Love You Waltz
© Art Fettig 1999
The years they’ve been so kind to us
We waltz still like we did.
It’s true we’ve got a pain or two
I still feel like a kid
We’ve kept that one ingredient
It keeps us both aglow
I know we’ll never lose it
Because my dear, you know
I love you, I love you, It’s you that I adore
I love you, I love you, I will forever more
I love you, I love you
I’ll never let you go, I love you, I love you
My dear I love you so
Mere words seem insignificant
They simply can’t reveal
That over powering passion
In the way we feel
So we’ll just say these words we know
They’re burning in our heart
Three little words they’ve served us well
We’ve used them from the start
We woke up to discover, we still love one another
It’s all that we can say,
it will always be that way
I’ll always love you so
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