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This song asks you to make a commitment in the first thirty seconds: you must surrender to its length, its ambition, its extraordinary patience. At nearly eight minutes, it doesn't rush toward its emotional payoffs but accumulates them slowly, building layer upon layer of harmonic richness until the whole thing feels almost architectural. The arrangement is lush beyond description — multiple keyboard textures, brass, strings, backing vocalists who eventually become a kind of congregation — but nothing feels excessive because every element is earning its place. Wonder's vocal moves through the song in distinct phases, beginning conversational and intimate, building toward something that by the final minutes feels genuinely transcendent. The song is fundamentally a declaration of devotion that uses time itself as its structural metaphor — as long as certain cosmic constants hold, this love will endure — and the length of the song enacts that promise. Emotionally it generates a rare feeling: the sense that love can be a form of spiritual practice, not just a feeling but a decision made continuously. The musical peak in the final section, when the voices multiply and the harmonies stack into something almost unbearably beautiful, represents one of the genuine high-water marks in recorded popular music. This is a song for long drives, for moments of quiet certainty, for the specific kind of love that has survived enough difficulty to know it's real.