Grow Old With You

"Grow Old With You" from the movie "The Wedding Singer," also adapted for the musical "The Wedding Singer The Musical," is a lovely song sung by the character Adam Sandler, Robbie Hart. The nice song comically outlines all the simple but rather drastic promises that Robbie makes to his love interest, Julia. By a chain of comic, sweet words, he proclaims a wish to be able to do boring things together, thus exalting the beauty in simple things of getting by in life.

With that sweet, everyday assurance coming from the singer, Julia is promised a lifetime of trying to make her life just a bit happier and more comfortable in even the smallest ways. It underlines how, deep down, only in the little things in life do we experience true love: through looking after her when she is sick, and other household drudgery, all done consubstantially. The chorus of "Grow Old with You" talks about missing, kissing, and needing each other as Robbie and Julia sing the song with an optimistic yet still very warm account of growing old with one another.

It became a favorite wedding song most probably because its lyrics seem to express the delight and humor in making such a commitment for a lifetime. It reminds us that love is not only in compelling expressions but a willingness to share in everyday life with each other, with all its ups and downs that go along. It is the warmth and the simple message of "Grow Old With You" that has continued to touch audiences, making it a perennial symbol of love and partnership.