How Our Love Grows video live on Youtube

It began as a silly song with a simple message - love is crazy, surreal, wondrous and joyful. And if we're lucky, it keeps growing and changing and deepening. Here are the lyrics:

When the cat fish are in bloom

And the dogwoods swim upstream

When the moon fills the jug like a lightnin' bug

And you wake up to a dream

When the humming bird hums a tune

That everybody knows,

That's when I find you're on my mind

And that's how our love grows

That's how our love grows, darlin’

That's how our love grows

That's how our love grows, darlin’

That's how our love grows

There's a great big piece of pie in the sky

And a big red blooming rose

And a lazy bell whispers in the well

A secret everybody knows

The turtle perched up in the tree is singin' for you and me

I declare Tuck sounds so fair

Singin' "You be what you wanna be"

That's how our love grows, darlin’

That's how our love grows

That's how our love grows, darlin’

That's how our love grows

So we keep on falling into

This empty sky of yes'es

Come what will we will take our fill

Of kisses and sweet caresses

You know that I know that you know

That I love you so

Let's water the seeds that feed our needs

That's how our love grows.

That's how our love grows, darlin'

That's how our love grows

That's how our love grows, darlin’

That's how our love grows.

For the video I wanted something surreal and a little psychedelic to capture the spirit of the world I created in the words. What better tool to hallucinate than artificial intelligence. I generated a bunch of images and short video clips based on the lyrics and a story line prompt. It's white elephant content - you don't know what you're going to get, and the fun is stitching together a video with this grab bag of pieces.

And why not ask Claude.ai what the song is about?

How Our Love Grows imagines a world where reality gently bends - catfish bloom like flowers, dogwoods swim, and turtles sing from treetops. This surreal imagery creates a perfect metaphor for how love transforms our perception of reality. The mantra-like chorus anchors the whimsy with genuine emotional weight. This isn't your typical love song - it's a dreamscape where the natural world morphs to mirror the enchanting joy of falling in love.

Not bad, Claude (with a little editing).

How Our Love Grows

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Released August 23, 2025

Written, produced, recorded, and all instruments performed by Rick Todd