Together Forever
Recording Artist: Bryan Adams
Writers: Jim Vallance
Bryan Adams
Date Written: May 2017, New York
Released: February 26, 2022 (Bryan Adams YouTube channel)
Album: Bryan Adams - Pretty Woman: The Musical (March 11, 2022)
Audio:
 
Bryan Adams: vocals, guitar, bass, drums
Jim Vallance: Wurlitzer electric piano
 
Produced by Bryan Adams. Arranged by Jim Vallance and Bryan Adams. Recorded and mixed by Hayden Watson at The Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada. Mastered by Bob Ludwig.
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Opening night, Nederlander Theatre, New York.
Eric Anderson, Samantha Barks, Andy Karl, Jim Vallance,
Paula Wagner, Bryan Adams, Jerry Mitchell (Greg Allen photo)

This is the closing number, the last song performed in the show. As songwriters, we really wanted to send the audience home, hopefully humming melodies and singing lyrics they could remember.

I've seen the show a hundred times. "Together Forever" never fails to get the audience clapping, and eventually on their feet for this, the final song.

Back-story:
"Pretty Woman: The Musical", opened in Chicago and New York in 2018, Hamburg Germany in 2019, London England in 2020 and Milan Italy in 2021. A USA touring production hit the road in 2021, stopping in every major American city and continuing into 2022 and beyond.

Bryan Adams and I spent three years writing the 21 songs that appear in the production ... a typical time-line for a Broadway show. A "cast album" was recorded in New York in 2018 with nine musicians and 19 singers.

The version above is Bryan's interpretation of "Together Forever", recorded 2021-2022 at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver Canada.
Lyrics: I was lost like a ship at sea
No hope no faith no plan
You fill my cup and lift me up
So I can be a better man

I was livin' life day by day
Doin' anything to survive
You give me strength and confidence
You make me feel alive

There was something about you, babe
I knew it right from the start - oh yeah

Together forever - you and me
We’re gonna make it somehow

Together forever - finally free
And all our tomorrows start now - yeah

Things were movin’ at the speed of love
And we followed it to the letter
There ain’t nothin’ that a man can do
That a woman can’t do better

I had a feeling inside of me
I’m glad I listened to my heart - oh yeah

Together forever - you and me
We’re gonna make it somehow

Together forever - finally free
And all our tomorrows start now - oh yeah

Together forever - you and me
We’re gonna make it somehow
Together forever - we're finally free
And all our tomorrows start now - oh yeah

Together forever - c'mon