![]() ![]() I said, "I wrote a chorus to that title you gave me this morning." Robert's not there. It was about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and we were driving back to Fame (Studios in Muscle Shoals) because I left my car there. We went to Robert's house and wrote a song, and Robert made us some barbecue chicken and we ate. We were writing with Robert Byrne that day, God rest his soul. I got to thinking, "I swear what" you know? "I swear on my life? By the moon and the stars?" I just kept thinking of all these things and put the lyric together, and the music came with it. ![]() and it's like, 'I'll love you forever.' I just think it's a good title." I said, "Let me think about it on the drive down." So I did, and I actually wrote the chorus, music and words, driving down to his house. He says, "I've got an idea for you to think about on the drive down. I live about three hours from Gary, and one morning he called me when I was getting ready to go down (to Muscle Shoals, Ala.) to write. You came to town and you were Eddie Raven's bandleader, and through that you met a character named Gary Baker. Watch Video: Story Behind the Song: 'I Swear'įrank, I'm gonna make a lot of songwriters mad here.
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