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Covenant

By Tenth Avenue North

677 views Sep 14, 2026 updated The Things We've Been Afraid to Say - EP album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Tenth Avenue North writes from inside a relationship that started "a little naive," "running into the future hand-in-hand" without knowing yet how fear would show up later. The honesty is unusual for a love song — admitting jealousy, admitting "our hearts break just from a wandering glance" — before the song ever gets to its actual argument.

That argument is a choice, not a feeling: "it sounds crazy to say we can feel things for other people if our love is real, but to choose our love makes it stronger in the end." The repeated vow — "I won't run when it hurts... I don't care what it costs, I'll never leave" — treats commitment as a decision renewed daily, not a guarantee against ever being tempted otherwise.

Malachi 2:14 calls marriage a covenant witnessed by God himself, not just a private arrangement between two people, and Paul's description of love in 1 Corinthians 13:7 — that it "always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres" — matches the song's refrain almost exactly. What holds the relationship together here isn't the absence of fear, but a covenant that outlasts it.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Verse 1]

We started so sure, with nothing to hide

A little naive, a little

Running into the future hand-in-hand


[Verse 2]

We didn't hear the truth

We didn't believe

That love could be a shade that turns to jealousy

Now our hearts break just from a wandering glance


[Chorus]

Fear comes in the dead of night

When I look into your eyes

Wonder if you felt a spark

With someone else when we're apart

But it's alright, it's alright

We trust our love is

We trust our love is

Covenant


[Verse 3]

I know it sounds crazy to say we can feel

Things for other people if our love is real

But to choose our love makes it stronger in the end


[Chorus]

Fear comes in the dead of night

When I look into your eyes

Wonder if you felt a spark

With someone else when we're apart

But it's alright, it's alright

We trust our love is

We trust our love is

Covenant


[Chorus]

Fear comes in the dead of night

And you look into my eyes

Wonder if I felt a spark

With someone else when we're apart

But it's alright, it's alright

We trust our love is

We trust our love is

Covenant


[Verse 4]

I won't run when it hurts

I won't run from the moments of doubt

I've given you all of me

I don't care what it costs, I'll never leave

I won't run when it hurts

I won't run from the moments of doubt

I've given you all of me

I don't care what it costs, I'll never leave


[Chorus]

Fear comes in the dead of night

When I look into your eyes

Wonder if you felt a spark

With someone else when we're apart

But it's alright, it's alright

We trust our love is

We trust our love is

Covenant

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