Be My Forever (2014) – Christina Perri (Ft. Ed Sheeran)

‘Big, big singer songwriters as Christina and I are, have a reputation for singing very depressing songs which is kind of why a lot of you are probably here. Because at some point at 2 o’clock in the morning you’ve sat by your lap top with half a glass of empty wine listening to Spotify crying. It happens to the best of us. But now and then Christina and I write happy songs. I probably have one in my career and Christina has done one as well…The happy song we do together I’d like to play for you right now.’

– Ed Sheeran at Air Canada Center in Toronto, 2015

I can’t believe it has been a whole three and a half months since my last Christina Perri post. Previously her songs were cranking out here like hot cakes. Today’s track Be My Forever is the twentieth song by Christina Perri to feature at Observationblogger. To say I’m smitten with her music would be an understatement. It’s funny, but I never imagined my music project would feature Ed Sheeran; the mega famous English singer songwriter who looks like he has gone 15 rounds with an industrial hairdryer. Perri has given him unprecedented access as it were. Good on him. Today’s song is a perky and cheerful number from my favourite female balladeer and troubadour. I wouldn’t consider it top shelf Perri material, but it’s pretty, pretty, pretty good.

[Verse 3: Christina Perri & Ed Sheeran]
You’re my bright blue sky
You’re the sun in my eyes
Oh baby, you’re my life
You’re the reason why
We’re on top of the world
We’re on top of the world now darling, so don’t let go
(One, two, three, four)

[Chorus: Christina Perri & Ed Sheeran]
And oh, we got time
Yeah
So darling just say you’ll stay right by my side
And oh, we got love
Yeah
So darling just swear you’ll stand right by my side

[Hook: Both]
Be my forever (x 6)

Be My Forever appears as the third track on her second studio album, Head or Heart. In a December 2013 interview with Radio.com, Perri revealed she had worked with Ed Sheeran on a track called “Be My Forever”. She stated:

“I was the most in love I may have ever been in my whole life, which is awesome because I knew I had a happy song in me. [..] As much as I love the heart-wrenching stuff, I didn’t want to force a happy song, and I think you can always tell when a song is fake. I remember going in the studio with this guy and him looking at me and I was glowing. And I’m like, I’m so sorry. I’m in love. This is going to be awful. We’re never going to write a song.”

Sheeran and Perri performed it live at Alice in Winterland 2014 on December 12, 2014 and at Ed Sheeran’s concert at Air Canada Center in Toronto on Sunday September 20, 2015.

References:
1. Be My Forever – Ed Sheeran Fandom
2. Head or Heart – Wikipedia

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