" 'Promises, Promises,' is a story about a girl and a guy – go figure – and the girl has built up so much armor around herself with the things that she knows how to do.
"And so, I used these metaphors in the song of, like, magic, like she's an illusionist, so she creates these illusions around her," he continued. "And she's gotten so good at it that she meets somebody who potentially could be someone that could help her break through those illusions and those walls, she can't really recognize that he could be the real thing, or they could be the real thing, so she's asking him for one thing: 'Don't make me any promises.' "
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH DEADKID!!! I go on this site so I can find EXACTLY what you put up: the meaning of the song, straight from the writer's mouth. I love this song so much. It reminds me of myself.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH DEADKID!!! I go on this site so I can find EXACTLY what you put up: the meaning of the song, straight from the writer's mouth. I love this song so much. It reminds me of myself.
" 'Promises, Promises,' is a story about a girl and a guy – go figure – and the girl has built up so much armor around herself with the things that she knows how to do.
"And so, I used these metaphors in the song of, like, magic, like she's an illusionist, so she creates these illusions around her," he continued. "And she's gotten so good at it that she meets somebody who potentially could be someone that could help her break through those illusions and those walls, she can't really recognize that he could be the real thing, or they could be the real thing, so she's asking him for one thing: 'Don't make me any promises.' "
--Brandon Boyd, in an interview at MTV http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1665355/incubus-if-not-now-when.jhtml
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH DEADKID!!! I go on this site so I can find EXACTLY what you put up: the meaning of the song, straight from the writer's mouth. I love this song so much. It reminds me of myself.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH DEADKID!!! I go on this site so I can find EXACTLY what you put up: the meaning of the song, straight from the writer's mouth. I love this song so much. It reminds me of myself.