Tori:
you mean over yours?
what I need to know, will you
Tash:
Be there
Tori:
Where the sun shines
Tash:
I will be there
Tori:
you are the light
Tash:
that follows you everywhere
Tash and Tori:
look for my love
Tash:
where the sun shines
I will be there
Tori:
will you
Tash:
Promise not to judge
Tori:
to judge who you love
I don't know if I...
Tash:
Yes, make that Promise
Tori:
whatever it is
Tash:
can you hear the truth
if they accuse me
Tori:
you think I'll doubt you?
what I need to know, will you
Tash:
be there
when I am all alone
Tori:
you're not alone
Tash:
when I am broken down
Tori:
we all break down
Tash:
when every door is closed
Tori:
there is one more
Tash:
will you look for me?
I will rescue you
Tori Quotes
It was really fun to create with Tash, to talk about a relationship between mothers and daughters. And she's, she's very funny, so... we have a very different type of relationship, I guess, then maybe we did several years ago because she's at boarding school now and that changes things. We're traveling a lot, we've been traveling a lot the last couple years and she's become very independent. So, I would say, the song took, took on all of, all of that relationship. Maybe in some ways it's good that she's in boarding school because she's dealing with other authority figures than her dad and her mom; we're not the main people she's dealing with on that level for the majority of the time. And Tash and I were able to talk about different girls that she knows and their relationships with their mothers -- um, some are really good, some are not so good -- and we were asking each other questions about why, why we thought they couldn't communicate, how there is almost a language barrier where one of them doesn't think the other understands them, or understand the seriousness of a situation, or the consequences (if you're the mother), and the daughter thinking, "If you tell me how to tell how to live my life and live my life for me, then it's not me living my life." So these were all kinds of things that were the backdrop of us coming up with a way to promise each other certain things. [Spotify commentary - 2014]
What happens when a mom and daughter don't even get to the point of talking? They don't even get that far because the walls come up. So we decided let's sing something that talks about what we won't do, what we say we won't do to each other and what we say we will do for each other. [CBS Sunday Morning - August 3, 2014]
"Promise" music video, 2014
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