Lyrics
Give me your promise baby tell me true
Request for a sincere promise from a loved one
Give me your promise I will love you
Reiteration of the desire for a promise to reciprocate love
Give me your promise baby make it tonight
Asking for a commitment to be made tonight
Give me your promise tell me you're mine
Seeking affirmation of being claimed by the loved one
Superficiality comes in easily
Highlighting how shallowness easily enters
Protect now the inner sanctum
Encouragement to protect the inner sanctum or innermost self
Alone with myself I barely recognize
Feeling disconnected from oneself, struggling to comprehend reasons for a situation
Reasons for this occurrence
Searching for explanations for a downfall or failure
And for this demise
Continuation of seeking reasons for a situation's downfall
Superficiality comes in easily
Reiteration of how shallowness can easily infiltrate
Protect now the inner sanctum
Re-emphasizing the need to safeguard one's inner self
But if with a mind that is calm and clean
Suggesting that if one's mind is peaceful and pure, bliss can follow
With him does bliss follow
Questioning if happiness follows a tranquil mind
Mind is supreme all is creation of mind
Stating the supremacy of the mind in creating one's reality
Like the never-deserting shadow
Comparing the constancy of a shadow to something that never leaves
"how many times will I ask this of you baby
Asking repeatedly about the extent of one's request for commitment
How will I make myself clear to you baby
Expressing a desire for clarity in communication
How many prayers will I offer tonight baby
Contemplating the number of prayers or pleas made for love
Through the soft veil of these hot lonely tears
Expressing emotional pain through tears
Baby ooooh...
Emotional expression
The never-deserting shadow
Reiteration of the unwavering presence like a shadow
The never-deserting shadow
Repetition emphasizing constancy
Give me your promise baby oooh tell me true
Repeated request for a genuine promise
Give me your promise I will love you
Reiteration of the desire for reciprocal love
Give me your promise baby make it tonight
Repeating the request for commitment tonight
Give me your promise tell me you're mine
Reaffirmation of seeking acknowledgment of belonging
Oooh the shadow, the never-deserting shadow
Repeating the metaphor of an ever-present, unyielding shadow
The never-deserting shadow
Emphasizing the enduring nature of the constant presence
(jarboe) *w.apologies to Dhamapada*
Acknowledgment of the influence or reference to Dhammapada with apologies
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