Forever

Album

Stick Season

Label

Republic Records

Genre

Folk

Composer(s)

Noah Kahan;Gabe Simon

Entered Chart

Feb 24, 2024

Peak Date

Feb 24, 2024

Released

Feb. 9, 2024

“Forever” is distinguished as the sole original track on Noah Kahan’s Stick Season (Forever), the final installment of his globally successful third album. Noah Kahan first teased the song on September 19, 2023, by posting a video on TikTok of him singing the chorus and a deleted verse. The capitalization of the video’s caption “In The Heat Of July” suggests that that was the original title of the song; however, this has not been confirmed. The video gained an overwhelmingly positive response, quickly surpassing four million views and half a million likes. Shortly after this, on October 8, 2023, Noah Kahan shared a snippet of the second verse, which gained just as much attention as the initial post. The song debuted during the final American show of Noah Kahan’s 2023 Stick Season Tour in Dallas on October 15, 2023. It was also performed five times during the EU & UK leg of the tour in November 2023 (in Amsterdam, Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow, and the first of the London shows). On December 11, 2023, Noah Kahan tweeted that the track had officially been recorded. He has also since implied that “Forever” shares a storyline with previous releases “Stick Season” and “Northern Attitude.” On January 25, 2024, it was revealed on various social media platforms that “Forever” would make a proper appearance on Stick Season (Forever).

[Verse 1]
Let's drive for no reason, let's see where these wheels land
Let's grind down the curve of this earth
You look fine in the evening and, honey, it's starting to storm
When we kissed in the car in the school parking lot
Where I'd go with my friends to get drunk
Used to wish I meant anything to anywhere, to anyone

[Pre-Chorus]
When forever was a sentence, sentence to death
Oh, when you wеre a running tear, I was a drop of sweat
And thе edges of your soul, I haven't seen yet
Now I'm glad I get forever to see where you end

[Chorus]
I won't be alone for the rest of my life
I'll build a boat for when the river gets high
And I'll meet a girl in the heat of July
And I'll tell her so she knows
That I'm broke, but I'm real rich in my head
That I broke a bone that never healed in my hand
So, when I hold her close
I might loosen my grip, but I won't ever let her go
I won't ever let her go
Woo

[Verse 2]
Remember when we called the cops
'Cause I got too high, and you got scared
And the cops just laughed?
We can't make rent, so we window-shop
In the Upper West Side, oh, my God
Could you imagine that?

[Chorus]
I won't be alone for the rest of my life
I'll build a boat for when the river gets high
And I'll meet a girl in the heat of July
And I'll tell her so she knows
That I'm broke, but I'm real rich in my head
That I broke a bone that never healed in my hand
So, when I hold her close
I might loosen my grip, but I won't ever let her go
I won't ever let her go

[Outro]
When forever was a sentence, sentence to death
Oh, when you were a running tear, I was a drop of sweat
And the edges of your soul, I haven't seen yet
Now I'm glad I get forever to see where you end
To see where you end