Love Without End, Amen

"Love Without End, Amen" is the title of a song written by Aaron Barker and recorded by American country music singer George Strait. It was released in April 1990 as the lead-off single from his album, Livin' It Up, the song spent five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, giving Strait his first multi-week No. 1, as his last 18 Number Ones had only spent one week at the top.^[2]

Content

The song is a mid-tempo whose narrator is a man who recalls was sent home one day from school fighting when he was a child, and he tells his father what had happened, expecting punishment from his father. Instead his father tells him that fathers always love their sons, and that such love is a "love without end, Amen".

In the second verse, the narrator has now become a father, he had no doubt that his son was "just like [his] father's son", and he passes his father's secret on to his son.

In the third and final verse, the narrator dreams that he has died and is standing outside the gates of Heaven. When he has doubts if he will enter or not due to bad choices he has made in his life, a voice from the "other side" reiterates the words he once said to his son, illustrating the ultimate "Love Without End".

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