Story Behind The Song
When I met the talented, handsome, sensitive man who would later become my partner of many years, I was seized with the kind of insecurity that made me question every action - what did it mean? Was I being too needy? too casual? too exposed? When I took this song into the studio so many years after writing it, I was playing it with an upbeat feel on my guitar. Bill Bentley heard it differently and gave it a slower, keyboard-based score.
Song Description
How do you interpret the signs at the beginning of a new relationship?
| Song Length |
4:42 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Diplomatic |
Subject |
Falling in Love |
| Language |
English |
| |
Lyrics
Promise You - Promise Me
(1) I'm filled with all this apprehension
Are we becoming a pair?
This sudden show of warm attention
Does it mean that you've started to care?
Oh, do you dare?
Do you dare?
Cho: I can only be with you
If you know me honestly
I promise you if you promise me
(2) I tell you I don't want to see you
Thinking you don't want to see me
I say I only want to free you
But how free do you need to be?
Oh, can you be?
Can you be?
Cho.
(3) I guess what I've been mostly saying
Is I'm still a novice in this game
Wasting my time in useless weighing
Of possible loss against the gain
Oh, all in vain
Cho: