You’ll Always Be My Girl – Song Description
“No matter where life takes you, you’ll always be my girl.” The promise at the centre of this song works, I think, precisely because it attaches no conditions to itself and asks for nothing whatsoever in return. Most love, even the deep, unquestioned love a parent has for a child, tends to carry at least some quiet, mostly unconscious expectation eventually — a hope for closeness maintained, for visits, for the relationship to be tended in return as the child grows and drifts, as children generally do and probably should. This song is written to need none of that. A father tracing his daughter’s whole journey from infancy through school and out into a wider world he knows he won’t be able to follow her into, encouraging her the entire way to fly as far and as freely as she needs to, while promising, without a single qualification anywhere in the lyric, that the love underneath all of it will hold regardless of distance, regardless of whether she ever circles back to check that it’s still there waiting.
Verse 1
Tiny shoes.
Tiny hands.
You held my finger.
I made my plans.
One small smile.
One bright day.
You stole my heart.
It stayed.
Chorus
Fly…
Fly, my girl.
Shine…
Show the world.
No matter where
Life takes you—
You’ll always…
Be my girl.
Verse 2
First day.
School gate.
Big brave smile.
I had to wait.
You grew fast.
Dreamed out loud.
Every step
Made me proud.
Chorus
Fly…
Fly, my girl.
Shine…
Show the world.
No matter where
Life takes you—
You’ll always…
Be my girl.
Bridge
One day
You’ll leave.
You’ll find
Your wings.
But love
Won’t fade.
It stays.
Always.
Final Chorus
Fly…
Fly, my girl.
Shine…
Show the world.
No matter where
Life takes you—
You’ll always…
Be my girl.
You’ll always…
Be my girl.
Lyrics Michael Forty
Voice Michael Forty