Walking Is Still Honest

I was just wondering what's being sung in the background of the chorus. I am getting 'I'd never forget if you died for me' but I'm ever so unsure. Can anyone enlighten me?

I can not forget what you've done for me.... I think

OH and that makes sense as well!

Thanks very much <3

I think someone on here told me it was "I can not forget that you'd die for me"...

yeah earlier in this thread it's mentioned. but it does really sound like "and I can not forget what you've done for me" and it makes sense too, it being about his mom and all

Idk why, but I just realized the first letters of Walking Is Still Honest spells out WISH, and that totally blew my mind.

g'nite everyone!

I'm sort of surprised that WISH (hmmm did she do that on purpose?) hasn't been commented on in here in light of recent revalations.
There is a such a specific rage and frustration at Syssiphan futlility in this song that to me it has to be a song about being someone who is trans.
I know how I see it from my perspective, and I know which lyrics scream out at me, but I'd like to hear what other people think looking back on this old tune before I shade anyone's perspective more than i may already have.

In addition to Tom's refusal of his mother's Christianity, I also interpreted this song as a sort of coming of age moment. I always heard these lyrics as Tom's internal monologue as he leaves home for good to find his own path. I envision him walking (with a purpose) out of the front door of his parents' house and into the sunset to begin life on his own terms.

"My legacy was making you a man
for a justice I cannot change"

This lyric makes so much sense to me now. Laura felt the need to make her mother proud by making herself a good man. And at the time "change" or transition wasn't even an option. She was inflicted with an injustice from "god" ... at least that what I feel like she means.