Dan Fogelberg wrote “Longer” while on vacation in Maui. It remains his biggest hit, peaking at #2 on the US Hot 100. It also topped Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart for a week in February of 1980.
Overseas ,“Longer” was a minor hit in the UK – his only to chart there.
In 1981, Fogelberg called...
Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there`ve been stars up in the heavens
I've been in love with you
Stronger than any mountain cathedral
Truer than any tree ever grew
Deeper than any forest primeval
I am in love with you
I'll bring fire in the winters
You'll send showers in the springs
We`ll fly through the falls and summers
With love on our wings
Through the years as the fire starts to mellow
Burning lines in the book of our lives
Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow
I'll be in love with you
I'll be in love with you
Longer than there've been fishes in the ocean
Higher than any bird ever flew
Longer than there`ve been stars up in the heavens
I've been in love with you
I am in love with you
Longer was written by Dan Fogelberg.
Longer was produced by Marty Lewis & Dan Fogelberg & Norbert Putnam.
Dan Fogelberg released Longer on Sat Dec 08 1979.
In 1981, Fogelberg shared:
It’s just a classic love song. Every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song that will be up there with the Cole Porter songs and ‘Yesterday’ and that stuff. That’s the stuff that’s gonna last. People are gonna sing them at weddings and really mean it, for...