Like many of Fogelberg's songs, this is about everlasting love. His muse at the time was Maggie Slaymaker, who he was living with at the time (they would get married in 1982 and split in 1985). In a 1997 online chat, Fogelberg explained the inspiration: "I was laying in a hammock on Maui, Hawaii, on vacation, in 1978, with my then-wife. All seemed right with the world. The song seemed to write itself."
In a radio interview to promote his 1981 album The Innocent Age, Fogelberg mentioned this as his most memorable song. "It's just a classic love song," he said. "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 a long time, and that's wonderful."
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