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A two-part geometry reference:

1.) Circles connotes cycles and repetitions – the logic of addiction. The singer recognizes certain patterns in his life. He’s attempted to change them but he’s failed. It’s likely a veiled reference to an alcoholic who, despite attempts at sobriety, always starts drinking again.

2.) Straight lines, on the other hand, connect points or dots. In the connection, the singer puts together the puzzle that is himself: why he did what he’s done, what in him makes him the way he is, etc.

It’s an excellent oxymoron: there are no straight lines in a full circle. Additionally, no real line – which would go on forever in both directions – could ever connect anything.

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heavy introspection!

Looking inward, at the recesses of his thoughts, the singer sees the stuff most of us don’t want to see. Cleaning connotes an attempt at self-improvement.

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In a final addendum, the singer makes clear that he’s only human and that he will sometimes fail in perfectly expressing this love, but wants to ensure that these spats of anger and shortcomings aren’t what he intends for his beloved. Instead, “These words just come out / With no gripe to bear.” He means that his words don’t have any real complaint to make or bitterness behind them, particularly in the light of his love, which is more real and enduring than the temporary lapses in its expression.

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“When your day is through” is a paraphrase of the idiom, “at the end of the day.” This means more than at the end of the workday or of one’s waking hours – it means when all is taken into consideration. The phrase is used to precede the most important fact of the situation: that he’ll always be there, no matter what – his love’s temper/disposition included.

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The Promise (if you hadn’t guessed by the song title) is the key here.

It’s a promise to “be there… when you’re in doubt / And when you’re in danger,” but also a promise to “make you fall for me,” and, as the song states in the next verse, it’s also a guarantee that everyone will fall short of expectations and to make mistakes… but the Promise continues: love will triumph over any shortcoming.

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Here’s a typical, stumblingly-honest love lyric. It tries to give voice to something that can’t quite be put into words – despite all the care given to the thought. The singer makes a heartfelt vow to pursue his love interest, not that you could make someone fall in love with you, but such is his dedication.

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… this line has so much soul! Sounds a lot like a similar song, too, The Four Tops' “Reach Out (I’ll Be There).”, which goes

Now, if you feel that you can’t go on
All your hope is gone
Life is filled with much confusion
Happiness is just an illusion
And your world is tumblin' down
Darling, reach out
Reach out
I’ll be there to love and shelter you
I’ll be there, I’ll always see you through

(Sturgill said he was influenced by soul!)

“The promise” is a promise to be dependable – to always be there for his love whenever she needs or wants him.

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) defines catechesis as

the act of handing on the Word of God intended to inform the faith community and candidates for initiation into the Church about the teachings of Christ, transmitted by the Apostles to the Church.

Catechesis is also explained to be the very mission given in the Great Commission – “the lifelong effort of forming people into witnesses to Christ” – the essence of the example of the apostles as well as that for which the Catechism was formed – a tool used in the process of going, making disciples, baptizing them, and teaching them. This is how the Faith is to be “handed on,” and, ultimately, this is how more people will come into life with God.

This section frequently references Pope John Paul II’s post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Catechesi Tradendae (CT), a document published October 16th, 1979 following the Fourth General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1977), which concerned itself primarily with “Catechesis in our Time” and over which Pope Paul VI presided.

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This is a call for the reader to follow the aforementioned example set by the apostles: being told to go, make disciples, baptize, and teach, then doing it.

The text further supports the apostles' example by implying a continuation not only through apostolic succession (by which priests throughout the centuries have inherited the roles of the apostles – one could actually trace a line from a modern priest to those among the first bishops of the Catholic Church), but a sort of succession in believers in that they inherit the missionary task of the Church as explained in the Great Commission.

The Catechism also cites Acts 2:42 for comparison: “And they held steadfastly to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.”

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This paragraph describes God’s nature – “perfect and blessed” – and his plan – for “man to seek him, to know him, [and] to love him with all his strength” as well as to call together all men “into the unity of his family, the Church.”

Next, the Catechism explains how God intends to accomplish his goal – by sending “his only-begotten Son” as Redeemer and Savior, and then the paragraph continues to mention God’s nature as trinitarian – three persons (God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit) in one unified entity – and each person’s role in becoming a child of God: through the Father, who created us; through and in Christ, who died for us; and in the Holy Spirit, which is perhaps best explained as God’s Spirit within us.

A lot of information packed into very few words, but such is the nature of Catechesis.

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