When Dave said "I promise. I promise..." we all remember this
you know what, I can totally picture heartbreaker!dave writing this one about nore, not just in the romantic sense, but really about who she is as a person and how he has such an intense connection with her
like, the lines "And when we walk down the street / The wind sings our names in rebel songs / The sounds of the night should make us anxious / But it's much too late when the fear is gone" totally being about how he loved her pretty much from the start and how freeing it feels to surrender to her love
and also the part of "I will meet you in the Next Life, I promise you" and "I will wait till then in Heaven, I promise you" being so clearly inspired by Cliff's constant presence in her life and how close they were
he would write this not only as a gift but as a tribute to everything she is to him, and also as an apology for all the times he wrote bitter words about her in his songs, and she would love him so much for it