If we share this road for a portion of our way   There's something I should tell you in the light of day   Before this goes too far, before I fall too deep   You need to understand about the promises I keep      Because there's strength I want and there's peace I need   In the words I say, in the things I read   From the clothes I wear to the place I choose to sleep   Everything goes back to these promises I keep      It's not that I don't care for you and want to hold you near   When the hour gets late and I say I have to go   Closer to the truth is that I'm honoring the One   Who loves us both more than we know      So you may think I'm wise, or you may think I'm strange   But my mind's made up and my heart won't change   And when the world falls down you can trust in me   Because I trust Him, and there are promises I keep      I trust in Him, and there are promises I keep