I can't promise the world
Fancy clothes or sparkling jewels
But I promise to be there when you need me the most
And forever's as far as I'll go.

I can't shoot the moon or rope the stars.
I'm just a singer in a piano bar
But I can sing you this simple song
Please listen to what it says
I won't promise to love you until the end of time
Because forever's as far as I'll go

So many times I've been in love
But never quite like this
This is the happiest I've been in a long, long time
And forever's as far as I"ll go

I can't shoot the moon or rope the stars.
I'm just a singer in a piano bar
But I can sing you this simple song
Please listen to what it says
I won't promise to love you until the end of time
Because forever's as far as I'll go

Sometimes it's hard to say how I feel.
I've been burned too many times before
But eight years of heartache and misery
Were washed away with just one word from you

I can't shoot the moon or rope the stars.
I'm just a singer in a piano bar
But I can sing you this simple song
Please listen to what it says
I won't promise to love you until the end of time
Because forever's as far as I'll go

No, I won't promise to love you until the end of time
Because forever's as far as I'll go


(For Kristie)
--RIck Bentsen
March, 2001

This is a song, actually. I wrote it last year for my lady. My only regret is that I couldn't see her face the first time she read it. She loved it. ;)