| "Your Love Is Forever" | |
|---|---|
 Picture disc for 1979 single B-side | |
| Song by George Harrison | |
| from the album George Harrison | |
| Released | 20 February 1979 |
| Length | 4:48 |
| Label | Dark Horse |
| Songwriter(s) | George Harrison |
| Producer(s) | George Harrison, Russ Titelman |
| George Harrison track listing | |
10 tracks | |
"Your Love Is Forever" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1979 album George Harrison. He wrote it as a guitar instrumental in an open tuning, before adding lyrics at the suggestion of his co-producer, Russ Titelman. The lyrics have an ambiguity typical of Harrison's work, in that the love he expresses is directed towards both a romantic partner and his God. In the United Kingdom, the song was also issued as the B-side of "Faster", on a charity single benefiting the cancer research project set up by the late Formula 1 driver Gunnar Nilsson.
Harrison wrote the lyrics to "Your Love Is Forever" in February 1978 while holiday on the Hawaiian island of Maui with his girlfriend, Olivia Arias, as they prepared to become parents for the first time. The song demonstrates a Hawaiian influence in the mood of the track, while also drawing on Harrison's absorption in Indian music since the 1960s. The ambient arrangement includes Harrison's open-tuned electric guitars, played through a Roland effects pedal, and a slide guitar part that reflected a development of his Indian-inspired microtonal style. Some music critics have recognised the song as a highlight of George Harrison and of the artist's Dark Horse Records catalogue.