How Bhavani Hope Co-Wrote “I Love You So Much” With Her Daughter
I have always been drawn to the idea of writing songs and making music for and with my children.
Such powerful emotions they convey so easily with honesty. Something as easy as “I Love You So Much” means the world to them as it does for me. I wanted to express this simple emotion in words with music. Children are drawn to the divine simplicities of life. How can I capture that?
Unknowingly one day while encouraging my daughter’s natural love and attraction to music with the sounds of my harmonium, we just started to hum along together. Her free and ready mind naturally sang the words “I love you so much Mom” in near perfect pitch and so pure. Bang! It hit me. We just started working from there. I just kept playing the melody. She kept singing. She repeated the now chorus and title of song several times, “ I Love You So Much”.
She ended with “no matter what” which purged my heart. What joy had been created. With and within her. Knowing that I had fallen on a beautiful musical and lyrical concept, I reached deeper inside myself to find the meaning. How do we love others? Where does love come from? Puzzled I turned to the basic principles of happiness. To love others I must love myself. Love is respect. I must respect myself to pass love to others. Life brings many trials and tribulations upon our hearts. Your heart has two sides. Love in, love out. Love gained, love lost. Our song together reminds me that love is in constant motion. It moves through us all. You have the choice to let it in or block it out. This song also reminds me of the idea that we are all seeking the love that holds no conditions. Testing the relationships constantly to see if we will continue to love like children, even as we grow into our larger bodies and developing minds.
Check out “I Love You So Much” by Bhavani below: