@ivanboix1

11 months ago

There was this beautiful comment someone wrote here that I used to read everytime I listened to this song but I can't find it anymore, so I'm just gonna go ahead and put it again. I didn't write this, I'm just a fan of this person's interpretation: This is beyond what a human can comprehend. The utter emotion that spills from him makes me feel as though all is good, and will get better. This song is not just a piece of art but a journey. I believe what the song "Promise" is really trying to tell the story of a visit to a lost loved ones grave. Meet me there, with bundles of flowers We’ll wait through the hours of cold Winter she’ll howl at the walls Tearing down doors of time Shelter as we go He is talking about meeting her at her grave with flowers, like people typically do to people they love who have died. Here they can be together and share how difficult it is waiting to see the other once again, “wading through the hours of cold.” It is difficult, but he views it as a way to break through the life/death/time boundary, and it is a thought that protects him from the cold he faces in life. And promise me this: You’ll wait for me only Scared of the lonely arms That surface, far below these burn And maybe, just maybe, I’ll come home Obviously asking her to wait for him on the other side, whether it be because he is scared of death or he may think he is going to Hell which is “that surface far below these burn.” But just maybe, he will join her in heaven. Who am I, darling to you? Who am I to tell you stories of mine? Who am I? I think here he starts to break down, wondering if possibly she isn’t there on the other side, if she even wants to listen to him when he speaks about his daily life and stories he has, or if he was as important to her as she was to him. Who am I, darling for you? Who am I to be your burden in time, lonely Who am I, to you? If she is there, who is he to force her to wait at death’s gate for him? Why should he leave her with the burden of waiting there for him while he gets to live his life down on earth? Does he even mean that much to her? Who am I darling for you? Who am I to be your burden? Who am I darling to you? Who am I? Reiterating the same thoughts, but likely either in a way that is telling her to go, realising that she has made the choice to go herself, or that she was never there in the first place. I come alone here I come alone here He is sitting there alone, she isn’t there on the other side anymore listening to him, if she ever was. He seems to want to still come here in the future though, even alone

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