Promise Me
A Promise of Love Across Miles
Lyrics
I sit beside you
I am sitting next to you
Take a good long look at you
Observing you closely
I'm memorizing
I am committing your image to memory
So I'll always find you
So I can always locate you
Smiling at me in my rearview
Seeing your smile in my rearview mirror
And the broken white line
Referring to the road markings
That takes me from you
That lead me away from you
Promise me
Expressing a request
You'll wait for me
Ask for a commitment to wait
And kiss me one more time
Requesting one final kiss
Give me all you lonely nights
Desire for all the nights spent alone
I'll keep 'em here with mine
Committing to keep those lonely nights with mine
I'll keep 'em here with mine
Reiteration of commitment to keep lonely nights
If I could stay in one place
Imagining staying in one place
I know what I'd do
Expressing a clear decision
I'd make my living, my love, with you
Choosing a life with the listener
But I work on these stages
Acknowledging a current reality of working on stages
And I live everywhere
Living in different places
And it's everywhere that I want you
Expressing a desire for the listener everywhere
Promise me
Repetition of the request for commitment
You'll wait for me
Reiterating the request to wait
And kiss me one more time
Asking for one more kiss
Give me all you lonely nights
Desire for all lonely nights
I'll keep 'em here with mine, mine
Committing to keeping those nights with mine
I'll keep 'em here with mine
Repeating the commitment to keep lonely nights
Listen to me
Directing attention to the speaker
When I'm away
Assuring that the speaker will sing when away
I'll be singing to you
Expressing a connection through song
It feels like I just
Subjective perception of time passing quickly
Got home yesterday
Feeling like returning home just happened
Now I'm packed and I'm ready
Being ready to leave again
With nothing to say
Feeling speechless and prepared to depart
I'm counting the white lines
Counting the road markings
In measures of roll time
Measuring time through broken road markings
They're broken in pieces
Comparing broken road markings to a broken heart
Like my heart today
Expressing emotional pain
Promise me
Repetition of the request for commitment
You'll wait for me
Reiterating the request to wait
And kiss me one more time
Asking for one more kiss
Give me all you lonely nights
Desire for all lonely nights
I'll keep 'em here with mine, mine
Committing to keeping those nights with mine
I'll keep 'em here with mine
Repeating the commitment to keep lonely nights
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