Lyrics Tori On "Promise" - Tori Amos

Promise
It was really fun to create with Tash
To talk about (the) relationship between mothers and daughters
And she's very funny
So, we have a different type of relationship, I guess, than
Maybe we did several years ago because she's at boarding school now
And that changes things
We're traveling a lot
We have been traveling a lot over the last couple of years
And she's become very independent
So, I would say this song took on 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
Some are really good, some are not so good
And we were asking each other questions about why we thought
They couldn't communicate
How there's almost a language barrier
Where one of them doesn't think the other one understands them
Or understands the seriousness of a situation
Or the consequences if you're the mother and
The daughter thinking 'if you tell me how to live my life and live my life for me then it's not really 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